Buford Ohio Map

About Buford, Ohio

Buford is a locality in Highland County, Ohio, United States. It is a small community with a population of 306. The population density is 79.7 people per km². Buford is located at 39.0767°N, 83.8441°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 45171, 45154.

Buford occupies a quiet expanse of the Ohio landscape where the earth holds a deep, clay-heavy stillness. It lies 20.3 miles east of Amelia, OH (from Amelia, OH: bearing 80°T), and is situated 5.3 miles northeast of Mount Orab. Ruble Run carves a modest, winding path through the local terrain, its waters reflecting the pale, shifting light of an overcast sky as it drains the surrounding fields. Beyond the immediate reach of the creek, the horizon is defined by the subtle, distant rise of Pea Ridge, a faint blur against the clouds that anchors the vast, inland sky. Five miles away, the landscape softens toward the quiet boundaries of Unknown Park, while the nearby waters of Sardinia Reservoir gather in a calm, flat mirror that seems to amplify the silence of the afternoon.

Buford maintains a rhythm dictated by the turning of the seasons and the cycle of the soil, grounded in an economy that has long favored the patient labor of the harvest. The history of the locality is written in the sturdy, weathered frame of its older structures and the persistence of its rural roads, which stretch out toward the far-off, deeper depression of Stony Hollow. Life here moves with a deliberate, unadorned grace, far removed from the clamor of the industrial centers that hum elsewhere in the state. People recognize the value of the land in the way the shadows lengthen across the stubble of the fields at dusk, a soft, golden clarity that reveals the quiet strength of a place that asks for little and offers a steady, enduring peace.

About This Buford Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Buford, Ohio. Coordinates: 39.076732, -83.844094. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Buford includes the ZIP code (45171, 45154), telephone area code (513), county seat of Highland County (Hillsboro), and school district assignment (Lynchburg-Clay Local School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.