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We would like to provide the residents of  Buckeye  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Buckeye Home page. The Buckeye Home page provides as much information as possible on Buckeye. Knowing Buckeye’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Buckeye’s Home page, you will also find Buckeye’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Buckeye has a population of 74467. 54.7% of Buckeye’s inhabitants are Male, and 45.3 are female. 52.4% of Buckeye is married and 80.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $246,191, and the average rent is $1,320. Household median income in Buckeye is $79,156, and the individual median income is $34,049. Buckeye’s Ethnic is the following: White(70.8%), Hispanic(43.5%), Other(10.5%), Multiple(8.5%), Black(6.6%), Asian(2.1%), Native(1.4%), Pacific(0.2%).


In 1877, Thomas Newt Clanton led a group of six men, three women, and ten children from Creston, Iowa, to Arizona, where they settled in the Buckeye area.Early settler Malie M. Jackson developed 10 miles (16 km) of the Buckeye Canal from 1884 to 1886, which he named after his home state of Ohio's moniker, "The Buckeye State".


The town was founded in 1888 and originally named "Sidney", after Jackson's hometown in Ohio. However, because of the significance of the canal, the town became known as Buckeye. The name was legally changed to Buckeye in 1910. The town was incorporated in 1929, at which time it included 440 acres (180 ha).


The town's first mayor was Hugh M. Watson (1956–1958), who founded the Buckeye Valley Bank. Today, Watson Road is the site of the city's commercial center.In 2008, Buckeye was featured on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer as part of a week-long series entitled "Blueprint America".A vote to designate the town as the City of Buckeye became effective in 2014.In May 2019, population estimates released by the U.S.


Census Bureau placed Buckeye as the fastest growing city in the United States by percentage from 2017–2018, growing by 8.5%.


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