Buckeye, Arizona
| Buckeye, Arizona | |
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Entrance to Historic Buckeye
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 Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona |
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 Buckeye
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| Coordinates: 33°22′14″N 112°35′27″W / 33.37056°N 112.59083°WCoordinates: 33°22′14″N 112°35′27″W / 33.37056°N 112.59083°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Arizona |
| County | Maricopa |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Jackie A. Meck |
| • City Council | Brian McAchran Robert Garza Michelle Hess Ray Strauss Craig Heustis Eric Orsborn |
| • City Manager | Stephen Cleveland |
| Area | |
| • Total | 392 sq mi (1,015 km2) |
| Elevation | 869 ft (265 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 50,876 |
| • Estimate (2014) | 59,470 |
| • Density | 129.79/sq mi (50.12/km2) |
| Time zone | MST (UTC-7) |
| ZIP codes | 85326, 85396 |
| Area code(s) | 623, 928 |
| FIPS code | 04-07940 |
| Website | http://www.buckeyeaz.gov/ |
Buckeye is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States and is, at this time, the westernmost suburb in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The population was 6,537 at the 2000 census. From 2000 to 2010, the Buckeye population growth percentage was 678.3% as it had 50,876 people at the 2010 census.
Buckeye is located at 33°22′13″N 112°35′27″W / 33.37028°N 112.59083°W (33.370461, -112.590825). It is approximately 30 miles (48 km) west of downtown Phoenix.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 145.8 square miles (377.6 km2), all of it land.
Buckeye has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh), with abundant sunshine due to the stable descending air of the eastern 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. Less hot weather may occasionally occur during summer, but such periods are no less unpleasant as they result from monsoonal weather with its attendant higher cloudiness and humidity; however actual rainfall from the monsoon is much more infrequent than in Flagstaff, Nogales or even Tucson. The heaviest daily rainfall has been 4.90 inches (124.5 mm) on September 2, 1894, but between 1971 and 2000 no month had more rainfall than 4.52 inches or 114.8 millimetres in December 1984.
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