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.
Population over time
2 figuresOxbow 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 217 | |
| 2020 | 198 | -19 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 22 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1887 USGS Verde quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Verde quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1936 USGS Payson quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1936 USGS Payson quadrangle1:48000
- 1942 USGS Payson quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Holbrook quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Payson South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Payson quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2004 USGS Payson South quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
241 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 129 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 61 |
| Natural | 32 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Tonto National Forest | YERBA |
| 5 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tonto National Forest | BLUE |
| 4 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office | not named |
| 29 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hellsgate Fire District | NOT NAMED |
| 29 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hellsgate Fire District | 341 |
| 26 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Payson Fire Department | NOT NAMED |
| 25 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Payson Fire Department | 2643 |
| 25 September 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Tonto National Forest | GIBSON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 59 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| American and Mexican Gulches | Gold, Silver, Kyanite | Prospect | ||
| Blech Group | Barium-Barite, Gold, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Blue Goose | Gold, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Iron Camp | Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Osborn | Asbestos, Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | ||
| Ox Bow Mine | Copper, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Lead, Vanadium, Fluorine-Fluorite | Producer | 1875, 1916, 1936 | |
| Oxbow Mine | Gold, Copper, Lead, Molybdenum, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite | Past Producer | 1876, 1916 | |
| Silver King | Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Silver King Mine | Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead, Molybdenum | Producer | 1933, 1934 | |
| Zulu Mine | Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Vanadium | Producer | 1878, 1940 |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Payson | 3.4 miles | 22 | |
| Fort McDonald | 3.6 miles | 22 | |
| Rye | 5.1 miles | 23 | |
| Gisela | 6.5 miles | 23 | |
| Star Valley | 6.6 miles | 23 | |
| Mesa del Caballo | 7.5 miles | 23 | |
| Diamond Point Shadows | 8.5 miles | 25 | |
| Flowing Springs | 9.1 miles | 23 |
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 Estates | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6054985 | The 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.











