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Do you know of Buffalo Plains ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Buffalo Plains. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Buffalo Plains.<1>

We found mention of Buffalo Plains as a post office (see Mentions and References below), but can't determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Erie County, New York.

It's common that the post office is named the same as the community in which it's located (although that's not always case). In this case, we can't match this post office to any of the existing communities in our gazetteer.<2>

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1849 and closed  in 1890.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Buffalo Plains ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Buffalo Plains:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
Published by W. & J.C. Greer, Printers

More Orphans in  Erie County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Erie County.

Abbott RoadIdlewood
Amsdell HeightsInland
Angola Lake ShoreInternational Junction
  
BethfordJamison
Bidwell 
Big Tree CornersKellogg
Black RockKensington
Boston Center 
Brighton VillageLawton Station
Buffalo CreekLincoln Park
Buffalo Junction 
Buffalo LakeMain-Mill
BurlingtonMain Village
 Market
CassMarquette
Central ParkMeadow Run
Cheektowaga NorthwestMidway
Cheektowaga Southwest 
Clarence CompactNew Falconwood
ClearfieldNewstead
ColdbrookNiagara Junction
 Niagara Square
DelavanNorth Buffalo
DelawareNorth Clarence
DelrayNorthtown Plaza
Deuels CornersNorthtown
  
East BuffaloOrange Park
East Evans 
East HamburgRed Jacket
Ebenezer JunctionRiverside
Eden Center 
EleysvilleSmithsville
Ellicott CreekSouth Alden
Elma StationSouth Buffalo
EnglewoodSouth Park
EvansSteel City
 Steelton
Falconwood 
FalkirkTerrace
FerryTonawanda Junction
 Transitown
Georgetown Square 
Grand IslandVan Del
Grandview Bay 
Green AcresWales
GrimesvilleWaterville Corners
GroverWest Alden Station
GunnvilleWest Aurora
 West Concord
Hamburg-on-the-LakeWest Newstead
Hamburgh StationWestwood
HarlemWhite Haven
HarrietWilhelm
HelmuthWilliam Station
HertelWillink
HilerWinspear
Homewood ParkWoodlawn Beach
  

Footnotes ...

<1>This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.
<2>Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/