Buffalo, OH

Buffalo is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in eastern Valley Township, Guernsey County, Ohio, along State Route 313. It was laid out as Hartford in 1836 and received a Buffalo post office in 1839, giving the settlement two names that still help make sense of its history. The community sits in the rolling eastern Guernsey County landscape, with Cambridge and the rest of the county providing the larger regional setting around local roads, farms, lakes, and heritage sites.

The county visitor guide includes Buffalo Trade Days, giving the community a distinct entry on the local calendar under Buffalo’s own name. Nearby, the Guernsey County History Museum in Cambridge uses a nineteenth-century brownstone building, a one-room schoolhouse, and a coal-mine replica to interpret the region’s past. Those places give Buffalo a practical context: its local calendar stays community-based, while the county’s museums, lakes, and heritage routes provide the larger set of destinations residents use for local visits across Guernsey County.