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Buckeye Lake is a reservoir in Fairfield, Licking, and Perry counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. [1] The lake was created in the 19th century as the "Licking Summit Reservoir", an important part of the Ohio and Erie Canal project. With the demise of the canal system in the early 20th century, usage of the lake shifted to recreation.
Buckeye Lake is a village in Fairfield and Licking counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 2,520 at the 2020 census . It is named for Buckeye Lake , a large lake along which the village is built.
Buckeye Lake State Park is a public recreation area in Fairfield, Licking and Perry counties, Ohio in the United States. The park consists of a 3,349 acres (1,355 ha) of shore areas, islands, and water. Shore areas and islands include Brooks Park, Fairfield Beach, Liebs Island, Mud Island and North Shore.
State Route 360 (SR 360) is a short east–west route in Buckeye Lake, Ohio. SR 360 starts and ends at SR 79, paralleled to the shore of Buckeye Lake. The route was designated in 1938, and has not changed significantly since.
The village of Buckeye Lake is directly across the lake from Fairfield Beach, about 1 mile (1.6 km) by boat but 11 miles (18 km) by road. According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 0.97 square miles (2.5 km 2 ), of which 0.66 square miles (1.7 km 2 ) is land and 0.31 square miles (0.8 km 2 ), or 32.52%, is water.
The Ohio buckeye, Aesculus glabra, was adopted as the state tree in 1953. Ohio State University took Buckeyes as its mascot in 1950. But why are the people of Ohio called buckeyes? Here's a look.
[4] [5] In 1932, the segment between Lancaster and Hebron was deleted (the part not concurrent with US 40 became SR 37) but within one year, the route was extended about 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) south to Buckeye Lake ending at SR 157. [6] [7] In 1959, SR 79 took over most of the routing of SR 157 to end at SR 37, its current southern terminus ...
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