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Oxford, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83228. It stands on Oxford Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oxford quadrangle. 42 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,803 feet above sea level.

Oxford within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Oxford fell from 48 to 42 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
201048
202042-6 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Oxford between 1993 and 2018, burning about 652 acres in total. 6 started naturally. None was 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
Natural6
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined201 acresIdaho Falls DistrictFRANKLIN COUNTY ASSIST 1
19 September 2018Debris and open burning3.3 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestOXFORD SPRING
8 August 1996Natural120 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestOXFORD
27 August 1999Natural46 acresIdaho Falls DistrictSWAN LAKE
20 August 1993Natural1.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictFOX HOLLOW
16 August 1998Natural25 acresIdaho Falls DistrictSWAN
15 August 2006Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictCEDAR KNOLL
8 July 2018Natural230 acresIdaho Falls DistrictOXFORD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Oxford: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Limestone, General, Lead, 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
Hatch ProspectCopper, Tungsten, CobaltProspect
Lucky Baker ProspectLead, SilverProspect
Old Mine WorkingsSilver, GoldOccurrenceVein
CliftonLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
CliftonLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Hatch ProspectCopperOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oxford in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 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
August 2018HailOxford-One inch hail in Oxford.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Coulam3.0 miles12
Banida4.6 miles12
Clifton4.8 miles11
Winder8.0 miles12
Treasureton9.3 miles13
Dayton10.2 miles13
Riverdale11.8 miles13
Thorenson12.2 miles13

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 Q1510107The 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 388063. 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.