Welcome to Buffalo Fork ...

So far, we found very little information about Buffalo Fork. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Buffalo Fork to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Buffalo Fork - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Buffalo Fork, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Buffalo Fork , we believe that it would have been located within present day Kossuth County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Buffalo Fork, you might consider that their post office opened in 1863.

A typical abbreviation for Buffalo Fork: Buffalo Frk.

Time Zone: The area where Buffalo Fork was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Buffalo Fork would have been located in the (515) area code.

Communities Also Named Buffalo Fork ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Buffalo Fork - it's located in Kentucky.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Buffalo Fork.

Adding Buffalo Fork to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Buffalo Fork was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Buffalo Fork post office opened in 1863.

We also found Buffalo Fork in the book titled Iowa State Gazetteer (1865).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Buffalo Fork.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of Iowa: https://www.iowa.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Buffalo Fork, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Iowa's counties, including Kossuth, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/