Place:Oxbow, Baker, Oregon, United States

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NameOxbow
Alt namesCopperfieldsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS41006422
TypeCommunity
Coordinates44.967°N 116.85°W
Located inBaker, Oregon, United States
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Oxbow is an unincorporated community in Baker County, Oregon, United States.[1] Oxbow is along Oregon Route 86 next to the Snake River near the Oxbow Dam on the Oregon-Idaho border, about northeast of Halfway. Oxbow is just south of the site of the former mining town of Copperfield.[2] Oxbow has a post office with a ZIP code 97840.

There was once a station named Oxbow on a portion of the Oregon Short Line Railroad now inundated by Oxbow Reservoir. It was named for The Oxbow, a U-shaped bend in the Snake River named for the agricultural implement.[3] The present-day community of Oxbow was established in the early 1960s near the former site of Copperfield during the building of the Oxbow Dam by the Idaho Power Company.[3] Oxbow post office was established on May 1, 1965, after moving the office from Homestead six miles to the north.[3] At one time, Oxbow had a school.

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