1976: 'Buffalo' East of the Mississippi May 13, 2020

Place names in America often come from totally foreign sources, like Cairo, Illinois, Manchester, New Hampshire, and St. Petersburg, Florida. Lots of other cities too took their names from local things, with those no longer existing. Bisons (or Buffalo, as they're often misnomered to be) are all but gone from the American East, but gave rise to town names in at least 8 states east of the Mississippi River. Perhaps most famously Buffalo, New York, but this list also includes another dozen or two with rivers, creeks, or mountains named "Buffalo", and more yet including names related to them, like Stamping Ground, Kentucky.

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