Buckeye is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It is Arizona's largest city by area, and it is the westernmost suburb in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 91,502, up from 50,876 in 2010, and 6,537 in 2000. It was the fastest-growing city in the United States for 2017, 2018, and 2021.
Historic downtown Buckeye as seen from Monroe Avenue in October 2015
Private auto camp for cotton pickers in Buckeye, 1940
The Buckeye Union High School A-Wing is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Aerial view from the south, of the northeast corner of Buckeye, Arizona, with the abandoned Goodyear Field, or Luke Air Force Auxiliary Airfield#6, a training field used during WWII, between the Roosevelt Irrigation District main canal and Interstate 10. Goodyear, Arizona, is the adjacent city to the east (right).
Phoenix metropolitan area
The Phoenix metropolitan area, also known as the Valley of the Sun, the Salt River Valley, metro Phoenix, or The Valley, is the largest metropolitan statistical area in the Southwestern United States, with its largest principal city being the city of Phoenix. It includes much of central Arizona. The United States Office of Management and Budget designates the area as the Phoenix–Mesa–Chandler Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), defining it as Maricopa and Pinal counties. It anchors the Arizona Sun Corridor megaregion along with the second-most populous metropolitan area in the state, the Tucson metropolitan area. The gross domestic product of the Phoenix metropolitan area was $255 billion in 2018, 16th highest amongst metro areas in the United States.
Aerial view of Downtown Phoenix in July 2011
