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Buckeye, Arizona

Buckeye, Arizona
City
Entrance to Historic Buckeye
Entrance to Historic Buckeye
Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona
Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona
Buckeye is located in the US
Buckeye
Buckeye
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 33°22′14″N 112°35′27″W / 33.37056°N 112.59083°W / 33.37056; -112.59083Coordinates: 33°22′14″N 112°35′27″W / 33.37056°N 112.59083°W / 33.37056; -112.59083
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 / 33.37028; -112.59083 (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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