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Buffalo

Ghost town · Polk County, Arkansas

Cove quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1959, 1:62,500)
Cove quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1959, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Buffalo is a ghost town in Polk County, Arkansas. It is one of 5 former communities in Polk County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 60th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Buffalo as a historical populated place on the Cove topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 34.4251° N, 94.4460° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCove
Elevation1,005 ft
Nearest living townCove, AR
Distance to it1.7 miles
GNIS feature ID63166
Coordinates34.42511, -94.44605

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Buffalo today, aerial view
Cove quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1959, 1:62,500)

Left: Cove quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1959, 1:62,500), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Buffalo is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Cove, AR (population 359), about 1.7 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 1,005 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Buffalo?

Buffalo is in Polk County, Arkansas, at 34.4251, -94.4460.

How many ghost towns are in Polk County?

Polk County, Arkansas has 5 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.