Buckeye, Texas

J. W. Stoddard and A. A. Plotner,^[2] the founders of the Plotner-Stoddard Irrigation Canal Company, who were born in Ohio, decided to name the town after their home state. Water from the Colorado River irrigated 30,000 acres of land. A school for employees' children was established, and a post office opened in 1907. In 1908, train service came to Buckeye (the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico).^[3]

The town grew to 100 people by 1914. By 1940, there was only one business in town and a population of just 25.^[2] (The same census in 990 and 2000). By 1949, the school consolidated with the Tidehaven Independent School District and the post office closed in 1971.^[3]

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