THE BUFFALO LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Mesic Dissected Plains setting.
Buffalo city has 4.64 square miles of land in Johnson County. Its Census reference point is in Mesic Dissected Plains, within Northwestern Great Plains.
Rolling semiarid plains are punctuated by buttes, badlands and river breaks. Much of the regional terrain developed on sandstone, siltstone and shale without the leveling influence of continental glaciers.
Regional context: Northwestern Great Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Buffalo and Johnson County
Buffalo is associated with Johnson County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Buffalo by land and water
The Census records 0 square miles of water within Buffalo, or 0% of its total area. It is 0.5 percentage points lower than the 0.5% recorded for Johnson County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Buffalo city has 65.1% of the land area of nearby Story CDP (7.13 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

