Buckeye is located just 35 miles west of Phoenix along Interstate Route 10. It is located just close enough to downtown Phoenix to be convenient for work, sightseeing and an exciting nightlife, yet far enough away to retain a comfortable small-town feeling.

HISTORY

It was in 1877 that Thomas Newt Clanton brought his family from Iowa to the settlement that was to eventually become the Town of Buckeye to retain his health.

Development in the Buckeye Valley received its first great boost with the construction of the Buckeye Canal. In 1884, Malin M. Jackson named the canal that was built there in honor of his native state of Ohio, the "Buckeye State." Clanton built 10 miles of the canal, which was completed in 1886. In 1887, Clanton and his family moved to Buckeye, becoming the first permanent Anglo residents.

Clanton and Jackson envisioned a need for a town site near the center of the Buckeye Valley, so in 1888 the two, along with William "Bucky" O’Neil, who was later to become known as a famous Rough Rider, laid out the town site on a portion of the Clanton Homestead. Because of the significance of the canal, over time the town became known as Buckeye, and the name was legally changed in 1910. Buckeye was incorporated in 1926 and included 440 acres. 

TODAY

Today this western most community of the Valley of the Sun is home to over 20,000 people. For the past 20 years, growth in the greater Phoenix area has been robust in three of our four quadrants of the region. With those areas rapidly nearing build out, the last frontier rests in the southwest valley and the Town of Buckeye.

As Arizona’s biggest “small town,” we still enjoy the great feeling of a small community. Buckeye celebrates Countryfest in the fall, Pioneer Days in the spring, and a great family Fourth of July. 

Buckeye is fortunate to be intersected by five highways, home to a general aviation airport, and served by the railroad. Virtually every major mode of transportation makes Buckeye accessible from multiple points. In addition to this, the Town of Buckeye sits on the state’s largest untapped groundwater aquifer, the Hassayampa River Basin. And the majestic view of the White Tank Mountains from every vantage point creates a unique and unparalleled landscape.

TOMORROW

Town planners project that it will take at least 30 years for the nearly 600-mile planning area that stretches from almost Wickenburg to Gila Bend, the Hassayampa River to Perryville Road, to be built out.

Currently there are over 240,000 homes planned in Buckeye. Given the size and number of the master planned developments within the Town limits, the population will explode to over 100,000 by the year 2010.

Along with homes, there are world-class retail, entertainment, health care, education, and employment uses planned.

Due to the amount of land that the Town of Buckeye has annexed or plans to annex (up to 600 square miles), the population may increase to over that of the current population of Phoenix itself. Buckeye is projected to expand to over 380,000 residents by 2030, with some projections giving the city some two million inhabitants by 2050, which would make it the largest suburb in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area and possibly the United States, surpassing Mesa which, by that time, will have been built out completely.

This once sleepy agricultural town is at the dawn of a new era, and those residents who are proud to call Buckeye home have found a great place to live, work and discover the best that Arizona has to offer.

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Buckeye Population: approx. 44,000
Buckeye to Phoenix: 35 miles