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).
Interstate 10 (I-10) is the southernmost transcontinental highway in the Interstate Highway System. I-10 is the fourth-longest Interstate in the United States at 2,460.34 miles (3,959.53 km), following I-90, I-80, and I-40. This freeway is part of the originally planned network that was laid out in 1956, and its last section was completed in 1990.
Western end of I-10 at the McClure Tunnel in Santa Monica, California
The San Bernardino Freeway in California near the interchange with the Ontario Freeway (I-15)
The end of I-17 at I-10 in Phoenix, Arizona
View of Lordsburg from US 70 and the junction with I-10 in New Mexico