The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusBuffalo Township is one of the fifteen townships of Noble County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 885 people in the township.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 815 to 885 (+9%). Half of its homes were built before 1986.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Buffalo yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Buffalo’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Buffalo’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewGreat Lakes Naval Training School…, 1918: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Buffalo, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Buffalo is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Buffalo has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church in Valley, 4 miles away.
Buffalo and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Great Lakes Naval Training School band marching on Euclid Ave., April 6th 1918, Cleveland, Ohio (1918) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.