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.
Population over time
2 figuresOxford 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 48 | |
| 2020 | 42 | -6 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1954 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Malad City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 1993Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 201 acres | Idaho Falls District | FRANKLIN COUNTY ASSIST 1 |
| 19 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.3 acres | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | OXFORD SPRING |
| 8 August 1996 | Natural | 120 acres | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | OXFORD |
| 27 August 1999 | Natural | 46 acres | Idaho Falls District | SWAN LAKE |
| 20 August 1993 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | FOX HOLLOW |
| 16 August 1998 | Natural | 25 acres | Idaho Falls District | SWAN |
| 15 August 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | CEDAR KNOLL |
| 8 July 2018 | Natural | 230 acres | Idaho Falls District | OXFORD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hatch Prospect | Copper, Tungsten, Cobalt | Prospect | ||
| Lucky Baker Prospect | Lead, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Old Mine Workings | Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Clifton | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Clifton | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Hatch Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | Vein |
Storms near this place
1 since 2018Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2018 | Hail | Oxford | - | One inch hail in Oxford. |
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.
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 Oxford | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1510107 | 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 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.



