why is ohio known as the buckeye state?
Best Answer: A buckeye is the nut from the Aesculus globra*, commonly known as the Buckeye tree. Ohio got its nickname from the fact that the natural range of the horse chestnut tree known as the buckeye was restricted largely to the Ohio River watershed. In his History of American Forest Trees (1810), Francis Andre Michaux names this species Ohio Buckeye because of its relative abundance in that region.