The community was named for James Buchanan by an admirer of the president.[2]
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^U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Buchanan, Indiana
^History of the Ohio Falls Cities and Their Counties: Precincts of Jefferson County, Ky. General histories of Clark and Floyd counties, Ind. New Albany and Floyd County. Clark County and Jeffersonville. L. A. Williams & Company. 1882. p. 259.