Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Buford, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Buford and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Buford
- Astronomy & Satellites ...
- Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
- To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above, we pass this GPS location for Buford:
- 47.294374, -115.145418
- Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Buford
- Bird Watching ...
- We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
- The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Mineral County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Mineral County
- Since Buford is near Sanders County and also Shoshone County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Sanders County
- eBird sighting report for Shoshone County
- Waymarking ...
- Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Buford ...
We found fifteen communities that share the name Buford.
Within Montana, the name Buford is unique.
Beyond Montana, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Alberta
- This Buford lies 414 miles [666.3 km]<2> to the north of the Buford that is located in Mineral County.
- Arkansas
- Colorado
- Georgia
- Kentucky
- Mississippi
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- South Carolina
- Texas
- El Paso County
- This Buford is located in El Paso County and lies 1,177 miles [1,894.2 km]<2> to the south southeast of the Buford that is located in Mineral County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the El Paso County community of Buford.
- Mitchell County
- This Buford is located in Mitchell County and lies 1,269 miles [2,042.3 km] to the southeast of the Buford that is located in Mineral County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mitchell County community of Buford.
- Virginia
- Nelson County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Buford [Nelson County].
- Pittsylvania County
- This Buford is located in Pittsylvania County and lies 1,952 miles [3,141.4 km]<2> to the east of the Buford that is located in Mineral County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pittsylvania County community of Buford.
- Wyoming
Curious and Interesting Names Near Buford ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
- Cabin City
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cabin City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cabin City
- Cabin City is located in Mineral County
- Cedar Junction ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Junction
- Cedar Junction is located in Mineral County
- Cedar Mouth ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Mouth have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Mouth
- Cedar Mouth is located in Mineral County
- Gold Creek
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gold Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Creek
- Gold Creek is located in Shoshone County (ID)
- Island City ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Island City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City
- Island City is located in Sanders County
- Keystone ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east) - Oliverville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oliverville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oliverville
- Oliverville is located in Mineral County
- Paradise
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Paradise have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
- Paradise is located in Sanders County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Paradise <4>
- Plains
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plains have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plains
- Plains is located in Sanders County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,139 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Plains <4>
- Riverbend
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast) - Spring Gulch
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spring Gulch have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Gulch
- Spring Gulch is located in Mineral County
- Superior
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Superior
- Superior is located in Mineral County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 897 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Superior <4>
How Far From Buford to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Buford to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic<5> community of Buford once stood, the straight-line distance beginning in Buford and extending to:
- Superior, which is the Seat of Mineral County, lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<2> to the east southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Buford to Superior, with an average speed<6> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
- Helena, which is the State Capital of Montana, lies 155 miles [249.4 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,984 miles [3,192.9 km] to the east (E). Driving would take three full days, a buggy would take 78 days and walking would take 113 days.
- The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,667 miles [10,729.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,435 miles [11,965.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<9>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,487 miles [8,830.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Mineral County: www.co.mineral.mt.us/
The official website for State of Montana: https://mt.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Buford could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |
| <2> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Buford) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Buford. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.2944, Longitude: -115.1454 In this case, the coordinates for Buford have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <3> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | 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 Buford, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <6> | While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day. |
| <7> | The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Buford to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 334.981 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 335.584 degrees. |
| <10> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 323.144 degrees. |