Buckeye, Arizona Buckeye, Arizona Historic Buckeye Downtown as seen from Monroe Ave.
Historic Buckeye Downtown as seen from Monroe Ave.
Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Buckeye is positioned in the US Buckeye - Buckeye Private auto camp for cotton pickers in Buckeye, 1940 Buckeye is a town/city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States and is, at this time, the westernmost suburb in the Phoenix urbane area.
From 2000 to 2010, the Buckeye populace growth percentage was 678.3% as it had 50,876 citizens at the 2010 census. Jackson advanced 10 miles (16 km) of the Buckeye Canal from 1884 to 1886, which he titled after his home state of Ohio's moniker, "The Buckeye State".
The town was established in 1888 and originally titled "Sidney," after Jackson's home town 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.
Watson (1956-1958), who established the Buckeye Valley Bank.
In 2008, Buckeye was featured on The News - Hour with Jim Lehrer as part of a seven-day series entitled "Blueprint America." In 2013, a video featuring a Verrado High School student who overcame Down's Syndrome to join the school's cheerleading squad, and using the Katy Perry song "Roar", was chose as a finalist in a Good Morning America contest. A vote to change the town into the City of Buckeye became effective in 2014. Buckeye is positioned approximately 30 miles (48 km) west of downtown Phoenix.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 145.8 square miles (377.6 km2), all of it land.
The initial Buckeye was assembled around downtown's chief street, Monroe Avenue.
There are presently nearly 30 master prepared communities prepared for Buckeye.
Other unbuilt prepared communities inside Buckeye include Douglas Ranch (planned for nearly 300,000 inhabitants), Sun Valley Villages, Spurlock Ranch, Trillium, Elianto, Westwind, Silver Rock, Sienna Hills, Henry Park, Southwest Ranch and Montierre.
Buckeye has a hot desert climate (Koppen BWh), with abundant sunlight due to the stable descending air of the easterly side of the subtropical anticyclone aloft and at sea level over the southwestern US.
Summers, as with all of the Desert Southwest, are extremely hot, with 121.0 afternoons reaching 100 F or 37.8 C and 181.6 afternoons getting to 90 F or 32.2 C.
The record hot temperature of 125 F (51.7 C) occurred on July 28, 1995, and temperatures above 86 F or 30 C may occur in any month.
The winter season from November to March is warm to very warm amid the day, with no muchh cooler than 68 F or 20 C amid a typical afternoon, but 20.2 mornings typically fall to or below 32 F or 0 C, though no snow flurry was recorded amid the 1971 to 2000 period, and only twelve afternoons did not reach 50 F or 10 C.
The coldest temeprature recorded in Buckeye was 11 F or 11.7 C on January 8, 1913.
Climate data for Buckeye, Arizona (1971-2000); extremes 1893-2001 Record high F ( C) 100 Average high F ( C) 68.3 In the town the populace was spread out with 33.8% under the age of 18, 9.8% from 18 to 24, 28.9% from 25 to 44, 19.3% from 45 to 64, and 8.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The Buckeye Union High School A-Wing is listed on the National Register of Historic Places A prominent recreation destination in Buckeye is the Buckeye Hills Recreation Area.
It is positioned 7 miles (11 km) south of downtown Buckeye on State Route 85 (at mile marker 144).
A 900-acre (3.6 km2) Buckeye Lake is planned.
The City of Buckeye's Skyline Regional Park is an 8,700 acre mountain preserve positioned in the southern White Tank Mountains.
The City of Buckeye is served by the following school districts: Buckeye Elementary School District Agua Fria Union High School District Buckeye Union High School District Estrella Mountain Community College recently renovated the initial historic Buckeye Union High School building on Eason Avenue near 9th Street, also known as the "A" Wing, and started holding classes in this new satellite facility in the Fall of 2011.
Named the Buckeye Educational Center, this facility provides academic courses, job training programs and improve education classes. There are a several small-town newspapers including the West Valley View, Arizona Republic's Southwest Valley version and the Buckeye Valley News. Buckeye is served by five highways, a municipal airport and a several nearby airports, and the barns . Buckeye is served by Valley Metro via a non-urban bus line connecting Phoenix-Goodyear-Gila Bend-Ajo. In 1910, the Arizona Eastern Railroad came to Buckeye; the first car in 1911; a steam rail line connected it to Phoenix by 1912; and a state highway by 1915.
As a result, Buckeye was booming.
The Buckeye Municipal Airport (ICAO identifier KBXK), is owned and directed by the town/city government. "Buckeye officially shifts name from 'town' to 'city'", cbs5az.com "Climatography of the United States No.
20: 1971-2000 Buckeye, AZ" (PDF).
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Buckeye Union High School School A-Wing".
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