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Oxford, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Covington-Porterdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30054. The Survey maps it on the Covington quadrangle. 2,308 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Oxford within Newton County

On record in Oxford

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Oxford grew from 2,134 to 2,308 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
20102,134
20202,308+174 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

Photographs

3 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Emory College, Few Literary Society Hall, Oxford, Newton County, GA
Emory College, Few Literary Society Hall, Oxford, Newton County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Old Emory Church, Oxford, Newton County, GA
Old Emory Church, Oxford, Newton County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Emory College, Phi Gamma Literary Society Hall, Oxford, Newton County, GA
Emory College, Phi Gamma Literary Society Hall, Oxford, Newton County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

287 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 287 fires within 5 miles of Oxford between 1992 and 2019, burning about 362 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 31 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
Debris and open burning113
Equipment and vehicle use41
Arson/incendiarism31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Smoking19
Natural17
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Recreation and ceremony11

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
5 September 2002Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-NEWTON-007
30 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-NEWTON-003
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-NEWTON-003
24 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oxford: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Newton County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oxford QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oxford in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2003Thunderstorm WindOxford$5,000The Newton county 911 center reported that several trees and power lines were down across the north part of Covington.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindOxford$3,000no account filed
March 2008Thunderstorm WindOxford$2,000The Newton County Sheriff's office reported that several trees were blown down across the northern portion of the county.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindOxford$2,000The public reported numerous trees knocked down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindOxford$1,500The Newton County Emergency Manager reported that several trees were blown down north of Covington in the Oxford area.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindOxford$200The public reported trees down.
March 2008HailOxford-The public reported penny-sized hail in the Covington area.
July 1999HailOxford-The public reported quarter size hail.
May 1998HailOxford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Cedar Ridge0.7 miles17
Cambridge Forest0.8 miles20
Essex Village1.5 miles17
Covington1.6 miles17
Marble Valley1.6 miles18
Turkey Creek Estates1.6 miles18
Murphy Hills1.6 miles17
Meadow View1.8 miles17

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 OxfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2735294The 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 332587. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.