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At the Heart of The Buckeye State

June 09, 2020 Cheryl Turner, Ohio State Statistician, USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service

Ever wonder where Ohio’s nickname came from? Ohio is commonly referred to as “The Buckeye State” due to the prevalence of the Ohio Buckeye, named Ohio’s official state tree in the 1950s. According to USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), the name refers to the tree’s nuts and their...

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