Welcome to Buck ...

Buck is located in the Piney Woods (East Texas).

While we don't have a date for the founding of Buck, you might consider that their post office opened in 1904.

Time Zone: Buck lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Buck: 936

Communities Also Named Buck ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 5 communities that are also named Buck - they are located in Kentucky, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.

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

Adding Buck to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Buck in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Buck was on a map titled Map of Texas (from Rand McNally, 1911).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Buck.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Polk, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.