Kill Buck, New York

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Kill Buck, New York
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Kill Buck, New York
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Kill Buck, New York
Coordinates: 42°09′30″N78°40′51″W / 42.15833°N 78.68083°W / 42.15833; -78.68083
Country United States
State New York
County Cattaraugus
Elevation
1,407 ft (429 m)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
14748
Area code 716
GNIS feature ID954603 [1]

Kill Buck is a hamlet in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. The community is located along New York State Route 417 and U.S. Route 219 Business, sharing its western border with the eastern border of the city of Salamanca. Kill Buck is named after Daniel Kill Buck (or, by another source, Dave Kill Buck), [2] who was a mayor of the community during its days as a Seneca village. [3]

Kill Buck is roughly evenly divided, with the northern half of the hamlet within the jurisdiction of the town of Great Valley and the southern half within the bounds of the Allegany Indian Reservation; Routes 219 and 417 roughly demarcate the dividing line. The town of Great Valley maintains a separate fire hall and public park facilities for Kill Buck. [4]

Kill Buck has an estimated population of 650 according to the Rand McNally 2021 atlas. [5]

History

Kill Buck was once a sprawling Seneca community, extending to cover much of what is now the southeast corner of the city of Salamanca before the city was incorporated in 1913. It was alternately spelled "Killbuck," but a late 20th-century controversy over the spelling eventually settled upon spelling it as two separate words. [3] It was established in 1818. [2]

Kill Buck has a post office with ZIP code 14748, which opened on December 28, 1837. [6] [7] On July 1, 1992, the post office relocated to an office at the post office in Salamanca after the building in Kill Buck it was sharing, a general store, abruptly closed. [8] (The proprietor of the store and Kill Buck postmaster since 1975, Bill Costello, had also overseen the closure of the post office in nearby Red House, New York—also inside a Costello-owned store—in the 1960s.) The Postal Service has returned to Kill Buck in a standalone building.

The hamlet's public school closed in 1971. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Kill Buck". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. 1 2 Patterson, Mildred Slade (1950). "Early days of the hamlet of Kill Buck". The Salamanca Press. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
  3. 1 2 Hensel, Rod. "Killbuck or Kill Buck? One word or two? What's proper spelling". Salamanca Press. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Future of former Kill Buck park discussed at town board".
  5. ↑ Rand McNally (2021). "New York (Northwestern)" (Map). Road Atlas (2021 Large Scale ed.). c. 1:1,874,880. Chicago: Rand McNally. p. 252. §§ NL-4. ISBN   0-528-02248-2.
  6. ↑ United States Postal Service. "USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code" . Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Postmaster Finder - Post Offices by ZIP Code". United States Postal Service. Archived from the original on October 17, 2020. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  8. 1 2 Snyder, Donna (July 10, 1992). "Store's closing is blow to Kill Buck community". The Buffalo News.


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