Buford may refer to:
Places
United States
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Buford, Arkansas Buford is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Baxter County, Arkansas, Baxter County, Arkansas, United States. It is the location of (or is the nearest community to) Buford School Building, which is located on Arkansas Highway 126, ...
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Buford, Colorado
Buford is an unincorporated community in Rio Blanco County, Colorado, United States.
History
A post office called Buford was in operation from 1890 until 1961. The community was named after John Buford
John Buford, Jr. (March 4, 1826 – De ...
, an unincorporated community
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Buford, Georgia
Buford is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, Gwinnett and Hall County, Georgia, Hall counties in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 17,144. Most of the ...
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Buford Highway
Buford Highway (also Buford Highway Corridor), a.k.a. the DeKalb International Corridor, and in the 1990-2000's as the DeKalb County, Georgia, DeKalb County International Village district, is a community northeast of the city of Atlanta, celebra ...
corridor, in Fulton, DeKalb, and Gwinnett Counties in Georgia
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Buford, North Dakota
Buford is an unincorporated community in Williams County, North Dakota, United States. It is the nearest community to the Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site. It is named for the nearby historic Fort Buford at the confluence of the Mi ...
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Buford, Ohio
Buford is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in central Clay Township, Highland County, Ohio, United States. The population was 352 at the 2010 census. it once had a post office, with the ZIP code 45110. The current ZIP co ...
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Buford, South Carolina
Buford is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lancaster County, South Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 398. It lies at the intersection of South Carolina ...
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Buford, Texas (disambiguation) Buford is the name of a number of places in the State of Texas in the United States of America:
* Buford, El Paso County, Texas
*Buford, Mitchell County, Texas
Buford is an unincorporated community in Mitchell County, in the U.S. state of Texas. ...
(two places)
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Buford, Virginia Buford is an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is mentioned in the Beale ciphers
The Beale ciphers are a set of three ciphertexts, one of which allegedly states the location of a buried treasure of ...
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Buford, Wyoming
Buford is an unincorporated ghost town in Albany County, Wyoming, United States. It is located between Laramie and Cheyenne on Interstate 80. Its last resident, who had been the lone resident for nearly two decades, left in 2012.
Location
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Fort Buford
Fort Buford was a United States Army Post at the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers in Dakota Territory, present day North Dakota, and the site of Sitting Bull's surrender in 1881.Ewers, John C. (1988): "When Sitting Bull Surrendere ...
Canada
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Buford, Alberta
Buford is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within Leduc County. It is located south of Highway 39, west of Leduc.
The hamlet takes its name from Buford, North Dakota.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statist ...
People
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Buford (surname) Buford is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Abraham Buford (1747–1833), commanding officer during the "Waxhaw Massacre"
* Abraham Buford II (1820–1884), Confederate general during the American Civil War
* Algernon Sidney Bu ...
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Buford Abner
James Buford Abner (November 10, 1917 – November 19, 2011) was an American songwriter, musician and singer who worked during the early days of country music, working in both secular and gospel country music genres. With his brother Merle Abner, ...
, American songwriter
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Buford Allison, professional football player
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Buford Ellington
Earl Buford Ellington (June 27, 1907 – April 3, 1972) was an American politician who served as the 42nd governor of Tennessee from 1959 to 1963, and again from 1967 to 1971. Along with his political ally, Frank G. Clement, he helped lead a p ...
, 42nd governor of Tennessee
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Buford F. Gordon, African American civil rights activist, clergyman and social scientist
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Buford A. Johnson, member of the Tuskegee Airmen
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Buford Jordan
Paul Buford Jordan (born June 26, 1962) is a former professional American football running back in the National Football League (NFL) for the New Orleans Saints.
Biography
A four-time all-Southland Conference selection, Jordan left McNeese State ...
, professional football player
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Buford Long, professional football player
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Buford McGee
Buford Lamar McGee (born August 16, 1960) is a former professional American football running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played nine seasons for the San Diego Chargers (1984–1986), the Los Angeles Rams (1987–1991) and the G ...
, professional football player
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Buford Meredith, American baseball player for the Negro leagues
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Buford Nunley, American baseball player for the Negro leagues
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P. Buford Price
Paul Buford Price (1932 – 2021), usually known as P. Buford Price, was a professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences. His ...
, American professor
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Buford Pusser
Buford Hayse Pusser (December 12, 1937 – August 21, 1974) was the sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee, from 1964 to 1970, and constable of Adamsville from 1970 to 1972. Pusser is known for his virtual one-man war on moonshining, prostituti ...
, Tennessee sheriff whose life was made into a series of movies
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Buford Ray
Buford Garfield "Baby" Ray (September 30, 1914 – January 21, 1986) was an American football player who played 11 seasons in the National Football League for the Green Bay Packers from 1938 to 1948.
Early life
Ray was born in Una, Tennessee, a ...
, professional football player
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Buford John Schramm Buford John Schramm (14 October 1938 – 28 April 2004), better-known as B.J. Schramm, was a businessman and developer of light personal helicopters. He was killed in the crash of a single-seat helicopter of his own design near Montour, about s ...
, businessman and light helicopter developer
Ship
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USAT ''Buford'', a ship used to deport aliens from the U.S. in 1919
Other
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Buford v. United States'', a 2001 Supreme Court case
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Buford T. Justice
Sheriff Buford T. Justice AKA Smokey Bear is a fictional character played by Jackie Gleason in the Smokey and the Bandit trilogy. He is a determined, foul-mouthed Texas sheriff, from the real Montague County or the fictional Portague County at var ...
, fictional character played by Jackie Gleason in the ''Smokey and the Bandit'' films
*Buford, a pink dog from the cartoon show
Buford and the Galloping Ghost
''Buford and the Galloping Ghost'' is an American animated television series and a spin-off of ''Yogi's Space Race'' produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that was broadcast on NBC from September 9 to December 2, 1978. The half-hour series was co ...
*Buford Van Stomm, one of the supporting characters on Disney's
Phineas and Ferb
''Phineas and Ferb'' is an American animated musical-comedy television series created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh for Disney Channel and Disney XD. Produced by Disney Television Animation, the series was originally broadcast as a ...
*Buford, the name of Leo Valdez's walking table in Rick Riordan's ''
Heroes of Olympus
''The Heroes of Olympus'' is a pentalogy of fantasy-adventure novels written by American author Rick Riordan. The novels detail a conflict between Greek demigods, Roman demigods, and Gaia (Roman name Terra). In the fourth book of the series, ...
'' series
*Buford Tannen, the antagonist of ''
Back to the Future Part III
''Back to the Future Part III'' is a 1990 American science fiction Western film and the final installment of the ''Back to the Future'' trilogy. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis, and stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Stee ...
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See also
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Bruford (disambiguation) Bruford may refer to:
Musical groups
*Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
*Bruford (band)
*Bruford Levin Upper Extremities
* Bill Bruford's Earthworks
Places
*Rose Bruford College
People with the surname
*Alex Bruford, founder of ''Infadels''
*Bill Bru ...
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Burford (disambiguation)
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Bluford (disambiguation) Bluford may refer to:
People
;Surnamed
* Ferdinand D. Bluford (1882-1955) U.S. educator
* Guion Bluford (born 1942), U.S. astronaut
* Lucile Bluford (1911-2003) U.S. journalist
* Terry Bluford Moore (1912-1995) U.S. baseball player
* Albert Blufo ...
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Ford (disambiguation)
Ford commonly refers to:
* Ford Motor Company, an automobile manufacturer founded by Henry Ford
* Ford (crossing), a shallow crossing on a river
Ford may also refer to:
Ford Motor Company
* Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company
* Ford F ...
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