[8] In 1877, Thomas Newt Clanton led a group of six men, three women, and ten children from Creston, Iowa, to Arizona, where they settled in the Buckeye area.

[10] In 2008, Buckeye was featured on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer as part of a week-long series entitled "Blueprint America".

Interstate 10 passes through the central part of the city, north of the original town center.

[3] 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.

The Hassayampa River, a tributary of the Gila, flows southward through the northern part of the Buckeye city limits.

Those communities under development in which homes are occupied include Riata West, Sundance, Verrado, Sienna Hills, Westpark, Tartesso and Festival Ranch.

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 United States.

Cooler 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 winter season from November to March is warm to very warm during the day, not much cooler than 68 °F or 20 °C during a typical afternoon, but 20.2 mornings typically fall to or below 32 °F or 0 °C, though no snowfall was recorded during the 1971 to 2000 period, and only twelve afternoons did not reach 50 °F or 10 °C.

As of August 2020, the park features just under 20 miles (32 km) of trails for hikers, mountain bikers and equestrians, picnic areas and camping.

In 1910, the Arizona Eastern Railroad came to Buckeye; the first car in 1911; a steam rail line connected it to Phoenix by 1912; and a state highway by 1915.

[10] Union Pacific operates a rail line running east–west generally through the center of the city.

[36] The Buckeye Municipal Airport (ICAO identifier KBXK) is owned and operated by the city government.