Editing Buckeye, Arizona (section)

==Geography==
Buckeye is located approximately {{convert|30|mi|km}} west of downtown [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]] in the [[Buckeye Valley (Arizona)|Buckeye Valley]]. [[Interstate 10]] passes through the central part of the city, north of the original town center. [[U.S. Route 80 in Arizona|U.S. Route 80]] once passed through the city, while [[Arizona State Route 85]] skirts what was the city's west edge. The city limits now extend {{convert|30|mi}} to the north and {{convert|16|mi}} to the south of the original town center.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/tigerweb/ | title=TIGERweb: Buckeye, Arizona| publisher=Geography Division, U.S. Census Bureau| access-date=May 6, 2022}}</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|393.2|sqmi|1}}, of which {{convert|0.2|sqmi|2}}, or 0.04%, were listed as water.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2021"/> The [[Gila River]] flows westward through the Buckeye Valley south of the center of the city. The Buckeye Hills and Little Rainbow Valley are to the south, beyond which the city limits extend as far as Margies Peak. To the north the city limits include the southern part of the [[White Tank Mountains]] and continue north nearly as far as [[Circle City, Arizona|City of Surprise.]] The [[Hassayampa River]], a tributary of the Gila, flows southward through the northern part of the Buckeye city limits.

Soils in Buckeye are alkaline and mostly well drained loam or clay loam except in northern neighborhoods such as [[Verrado]], where gravelly sand or sandy loam with varying degrees of excessive drainage are common.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/gmap/ | title=SoilWeb: An Online Soil Survey Browser &#124; California Soil Resource Lab }}</ref>

===Neighborhoods===
The original Buckeye was built around downtown's main street, Monroe Avenue. There are currently nearly 30 [[Planned community|master planned communities]] planned for Buckeye. Those communities under development in which homes are occupied include Riata West, Sundance, [[Verrado]], Sienna Hills, Westpark, [[Tartesso]] and Festival Ranch.

Other unbuilt planned communities within Buckeye include [[Douglas Ranch, Buckeye|Douglas Ranch]] (planned for nearly 300,000 inhabitants), Sun Valley Villages, Spurlock Ranch, [[Trillium (Buckeye)|Trillium]], Elianto, Westwind, Silver Rock, Henry Park, Southwest Ranch and Montierre.

[[Sundance Towne Center]], a shopping center developed by Vestar Development in the Sundance community, opened in 2007.

===Climate===
Buckeye has a [[desert climate#Hot desert climates|hot desert climate]] ([[Köppen Climate Classification|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 United States. Summers, as with most of the [[Sonoran Desert]], are extremely hot, with 121.0 afternoons reaching {{convert|100|F|C|1|disp=or}} and 181.6 afternoons reaching {{convert|90|F|C|1|disp=or}}. The record high temperature of {{convert|128|F|C|1}} occurred on July 28, 1995, and temperatures above {{convert|86|F|C|disp=or}} may occur in any month. Cooler weather may occasionally occur during summer, but such periods are no less unpleasant as they result from [[North American monsoon|monsoonal]] weather, with its attendant higher cloudiness and [[humidity]]; however, actual rainfall from the monsoon is much more infrequent than in [[Flagstaff, Arizona|Flagstaff]], [[Nogales, Arizona|Nogales]] or even [[Tucson, Arizona|Tucson]]. The heaviest daily rainfall has been {{convert|4.90|in|mm|1}} on September 2, 1894, but between 1971 and 2000 no month had more rainfall than {{convert|4.52|in|mm|1|disp=or}} in December 1984.

The winter season from November to March is warm to very warm during the day, not much cooler than {{convert|68|F|C|disp=or}} during a typical afternoon, but 20.2 mornings typically fall to or below {{convert|32|F|C|disp=or}}, though no snowfall was recorded during the 1971 to 2000 period, and only twelve afternoons did not reach {{convert|50|F|disp=or}}. The coldest temperature recorded in Buckeye was {{convert|11|F|C|1|disp=or}} on January 8, 1913.

{{Weather box|width=auto
|location = Buckeye, Arizona (1971–2000); extremes 1893–2001
|single line = Yes
|Jan record high F = 100
|Feb record high F = 92
|Mar record high F = 101
|Apr record high F = 106
|May record high F = 115
|Jun record high F = 122
|Jul record high F = 125
|Aug record high F = 120
|Sep record high F = 119
|Oct record high F = 108
|Nov record high F = 96
|Dec record high F = 87
|year record high F = 125
|Jan high F = 68.3
|Feb high F = 73.2
|Mar high F = 78.7
|Apr high F = 87.3
|May high F = 95.9
|Jun high F = 105.8
|Jul high F = 108.4
|Aug high F = 106.3
|Sep high F = 101.0
|Oct high F = 90.0
|Nov high F = 76.8
|Dec high F = 68.2
|year high F = 88.3
|Jan low F = 36.7
|Feb low F = 40.4
|Mar low F = 44.6
|Apr low F = 49.6
|May low F = 57.5
|Jun low F = 65.3
|Jul low F = 74.2
|Aug low F = 73.6
|Sep low F = 66.1
|Oct low F = 53.1
|Nov low F = 41.3
|Dec low F = 35.8
|year low F = 53.2
|Jan record low F = 11
|Feb record low F = 18
|Mar record low F = 20
|Apr record low F = 29
|May record low F = 32
|Jun record low F = 42
|Jul record low F = 49
|Aug record low F = 48
|Sep record low F = 41
|Oct record low F = 26
|Nov record low F = 20
|Dec record low F = 12
|year record low F = 11
|rain colour = green
|Jan rain inch = 0.80
|Feb rain inch = 0.80
|Mar rain inch = 0.99
|Apr rain inch = 0.26
|May rain inch = 0.15
|Jun rain inch = 0.07
|Jul rain inch = 0.67
|Aug rain inch = 1.22
|Sep rain inch = 0.75
|Oct rain inch = 0.64
|Nov rain inch = 0.64
|Dec rain inch = 0.92
|Jan rain days = 3.4
|Feb rain days = 3.1
|Mar rain days = 4.0
|Apr rain days = 1.5
|May rain days = 0.8
|Jun rain days = 0.4
|Jul rain days = 2.0
|Aug rain days = 4.1
|Sep rain days = 2.4
|Oct rain days = 2.3
|Nov rain days = 1.9
|Dec rain days = 3.1
|unit rain days = 0.01 inch
|source 1 = [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]]<ref name=NOAA>
{{cite web
|url = http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climatenormals/clim20/az/021026.pdf
|publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
|title=Climatography of the United States No. 20: 1971–2000 – Buckeye, AZ
|year=2004
}}
Retrieved on November 21, 2016.
</ref>
|date=November 2016
}}