Buckeye Island is a small island of the

U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sover ...

Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...

, in

Lake Erie Lake Erie ( "eerie") is the fourth largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has t ...

. It is located just off shore of the northeast tip of

South Bass Island South Bass Island is a small island in western Lake Erie, and a part of Ottawa County, Ohio, United States. It is the southernmost of the three Bass Islands and located 3 miles (4.6 km) from the south shore of Lake Erie. It is the third la ...

, in Put-in-Bay Township, Ottawa County. It was seasonally populated early in the 20th century. The island was noted for the

Willow Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist s ...

trees found there. It is privately owned, and has been by the same family since 1916. It is sometimes labeled as "Buckeye Point".USGS Topo and Historical Topographic Map Collection for Put-In-Bay
Retrieved March 13, 2014.

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Lake Erie Islands by Michael Gora
Islands of Ottawa County, Ohio Islands of Lake Erie in Ohio Private islands of Ohio Private islands of the Great Lakes {{OttawaCountyOH-geo-stub