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BUCKEYE

The small-town identity that came naturally to Buckeye, about 35 miles west of Downtown Phoenix, may not last forever—the town’s population in 2000 was 8,500, but by 2007, the population had jumped to more than 40,000 residents, who came for the undeveloped land and the welcoming environment of Arizona’s “biggest small town.”