Oxboro, Minnesota

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• First Presbyterian Church of Oak Grove Cemeterylisted 2014 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1896 USGS Minneapolis quadrangle1:62500
• 1901 USGS Minneapolis quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1953 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Minneapolis quadrangle1:62500
• 1959 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS St. Paul quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1985 USGS Saint Paul quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:24000

History of Hennepin County and the City of Minneapolis, Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Oxboro between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,546 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Bloomington
• Richfield
• Atwood
• Bloomington Ferry

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Oxboro: 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Every working recorded in Hennepin County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 649099. 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.