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5 unusual facts about Buckeye


Buckeye, Arizona

Buckeye is served by Valley Metro via a rural bus line connecting Phoenix-Goodyear-Gila Bend-Ajo.

Major roadways serving the city include Interstate 10, State Route 85, Maricopa County Route 85 and the Sun Valley Parkway.

In 2013, a video featuring a Verrado High School student who overcame Down's Syndrome to join the school's cheerleading squad, and using the Katy Perry song "Roar", was selected as a finalist in a Good Morning America contest.

Buckeye, Colorado

The Civilian Conservation Corps established camp No. 809 in 1935, on the Munroe Ranch.

Dallas Kinney

Dallas Kinney, born in 1937 in Buckeye, Iowa is a world renowned photo journalist who won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in photography for his photographs of Florida migrant workers for The Palm Beach Post.


A. flava

Aesculus flava, the yellow buckeye, common buckeye or sweet buckeye, a tree species native to the Ohio Valley and Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern United States

Aesculus × carnea

Aesculus × carnea, or red horse-chestnut, is an artificial hybrid between A. pavia (red buckeye) and A. hippocastanum (horse-chestnut).

Agri Broadcast Network

Lindsay Hill, associate farm director and co-founder of Buckeye Ag Radio Network "The Barn" (and wife of Vance) died in a two vehicle accident at the intersection of Ohio State Routes 235 and 41 just north of New Carlisle and west of North Hampton near Springfield, Ohio on Thursday morning May 19,2011 while she was a new employee for AgDay, a television program produced by Farm Journal Magazine.

Buckeye CableSystem

On December 12, 2012 at 5PM, Buckeye CableSystem ceased broadcasting of local Fox affiliate WUPW, due to a dispute between the cable system, WUPW owner American Spirit Media and WUPW operator Raycom Media (owners of WTOL).

Buckeye Partners

Buckeye pipelines supply aviation fuel to major airports in New York City, and the firm's property was listed by United States federal prosecutors as being among the targets of the 2007 John F. Kennedy International Airport attack plot.

Buckeye Union High School

Finally, the towns of Buckeye, Palo Verde, Arlington, and Liberty came together with the goal of forming an accredited high school.

Kirk Herbstreit

After waiting his turn as a Buckeye starter behind Greg Frey and Kent Graham, Herbstreit finally led the team as a senior in 1992.

Liberty, Arizona

Liberty is home to the Liberty Elementary School District headquarters, although the district itself has expanded out to include much of the surrounding areas of Buckeye and Goodyear.

Luke Witte

Another Buckeye, Mark Wagar (currently the president of Empire BlueCross BlueShield in New York), was attacked from behind by Minnesota player—and future Major League Baseball Hall of FamerDave Winfield, who landed four or five punches to Wagar's head.

Pandel Savic

He helped the 1949 Buckeyes to Ohio State's first Rose Bowl win over California, gaining 16 total yards rushing and passing, Including an important 6 yards on the ground to close out the remaining time and seal the Buckeye victory.

Public transport in Phoenix

Towns such as Buckeye, Cave Creek and Laveen are localities in Maricopa County which are omitted from Valley Metro’s routes; people living in these areas must commute miles to the nearest bus stops in surrounding cities.

Quercus pungens

Other plants associated with it include the Mohr shin oak, Quercus mohriana, oneseed juniper, Juniperus monosperma, cane cholla, Opuntia imbricata, purplefruited pricklypear, Opuntia phaeacantha, Mexican buckeye, Ungnadia speciosa, Texas persimmon, Diospyros texana, hairy tridens, Erioneuron pilosum and plateau oak, Quercus fusiformis.

Stan Boroski

Boroski was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 20th round of the 1981 Major League Baseball Draft as a catcher out of Buckeye South High School in Rayland, Ohio.

U.S. Route 80

East of Yuma, the old route splits off Interstate 8 and parallels it to Gila Bend, it then heads to the north, crossing the Gila River near Gillespie Dam, and heads east through towns of Buckeye, Goodyear, and Avondale before reaching the city of Phoenix.

Winter Haven Christian School

Winter Haven Christian School (WHCS) is a private Christian school located at 1700 Buckeye Loop Road NE in the City of Winter Haven, Florida.


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