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Oxbow, North Dakota

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1989. It stands in Oxbow City. It lies in ZIP code area 58047. The Survey maps it on the Hickson quadrangle. 381 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Oxbow within Cass County

Population over time

2 figures

Oxbow grew from 305 to 381 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
2010305
2020381+76 (+25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 24 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

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Oxbow in 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
19 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceI29
1 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceHURLEY CONTROL BURN
5 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorth Dakota State Forest ServiceINTERSTATE 29 / 54 MM FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass 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
Hickson0.2 miles24
Saint Benedict3.9 miles24
Wild Rice5.1 miles24
Norman7.1 miles23
Horace7.7 miles24
Briarwood7.8 miles25
Frontier8.9 miles25
Prairie Rose10.1 miles25

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 OxbowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2447047The 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 2558883. 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.