Do you know of South Buffalo ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about South Buffalo. 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 South Buffalo.

Our sources for South Buffalo (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of South Buffalo other than they indicate that South Buffalo would be found somewhere in Erie County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1874 and closed  in 1888.

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.

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.

Communities Also Named South Buffalo ...

We found one communities that share the name South Buffalo.

Within New York, the name South Buffalo is unique.

Beyond New York, there is another community also named South Buffalo in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Kentucky
    • Larue County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of South Buffalo [Larue County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for South Buffalo ...

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

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for South Buffalo - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Rand McNally Map of New York (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

The FIPS database contains an entry for South Buffalo.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 36/68693   (Place Name: South Buffalo)

County: Erie     (FIPS State/County: 36/029)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- South Buffalo) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in  Erie County ...

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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.