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Luckey is a village in Wood County, Ohio, and it is the only incorporated village in Troy Township.

Luckey is named for Captain James B. Luckey, a U.S. Army officer from 1861 to 1864, who came in 1879, bought 180 acres of forest land, and built a sawmill and barrel-stave factory on the village site.

Isaac Krotzer surveyed and platted the town in 1881, and a post office called Luckey has been in operation since that same year.

Luckey's early economy was based largely on lime production, with a lime kiln and limestone quarry among the businesses operating by 1881 alongside a hotel, stave factory, and sawmill.

A fire on July 12, 1893, destroyed much of Luckey's business district, but residents rebuilt rapidly and the new stores were completed in 1894.

The village of Luckey was not incorporated until 1940, decades after it was platted.

From 1949 to 1958, a production site near Luckey produced the metal beryllium under contract for the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

In 2019, NSG began construction of a float glass plant just outside Luckey to supply First Solar — the first new glass plant built in the United States since 1980.

The population of Luckey was 1,009 at the 2020 census, almost unchanged from 1,012 people in 383 households at the 2010 census, and the village covers 0.69 square miles.