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History · Buckeye Township

34% of Buckeye Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1964 on.

0on the National Register
34%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Buckeye Township’s past

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The story

How Buckeye Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Buckeye Township.

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Buckeye was started as a colony/settlement by Universalist preacher Vear P. Wilson. Buckeye colony had nearly two hundred settlers and a church built by 1870.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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On the map

Buckeye Township on the map in 1964

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Buckeye Township.

Buckeye Township on the 1964 USGS map1964Buckeye sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Buckeye Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Buckeye Township

Nobody well known was born in Buckeye Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Harry BeaumontAmerican film director, actor, and screenwriter · b. 1888
Bob CainAmerican baseball player · b. 1924
Earl D. EisenhowerAmerican politician · b. 1898
Milton Stover EisenhowerAmerican university president · b. 1899
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Ralph FaulknerAmerican fencer and actor · b. 1891
Leo PiersonAmerican actor · b. 1888
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Hayes TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWillowdale TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGrant Township2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCheever TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.