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Oxbow Estates, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Payson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85541. It lies near Oxbow Hill. The Survey maps it on the Payson South quadrangle. 198 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,630 feet above sea level.

Oxbow Estates within Gila County

Population over time

2 figures

Oxbow Estates fell from 217 to 198 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010217
2020198-19 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

241 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Oxbow Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 641 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined129
Equipment and vehicle use61
Natural32
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTonto National ForestYERBA
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTonto National ForestBLUE
4 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Officenot named
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHellsgate Fire DistrictNOT NAMED
29 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHellsgate Fire District341
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePayson Fire DepartmentNOT NAMED
25 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePayson Fire Department2643
25 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTonto National ForestGIBSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gila County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 59 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 59 workings within 5 miles of Oxbow Estates: 23 past producers, 19 prospects, 11 occurrences, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Barium-Barite, Copper, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
American and Mexican GulchesGold, Silver, KyaniteProspect
Blech GroupBarium-Barite, Gold, SilverProspect
Blue GooseGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Iron CampCopper, Silver, Lead, GoldProspect
OsbornAsbestos, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Ox Bow MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Lead, Vanadium, Fluorine-FluoriteProducer1875, 1916, 1936
Oxbow MineGold, Copper, Lead, Molybdenum, Silver, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1876, 1916
Silver KingSilver, Gold, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Silver King MineCopper, Silver, Gold, Lead, MolybdenumProducer1933, 1934
Zulu MineGold, Copper, Silver, Lead, VanadiumProducer1878, 1940

Every working recorded in Gila County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Payson3.4 miles22
Fort McDonald3.6 miles22
Rye5.1 miles23
Gisela6.5 miles23
Star Valley6.6 miles23
Mesa del Caballo7.5 miles23
Diamond Point Shadows8.5 miles25
Flowing Springs9.1 miles23

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Oxbow EstatesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6054985The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 40844. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.