Oxbow (disambiguation)

An oxbow is part of oxen tack: a u-shaped collar, the upper parts of which are fastened to a yoke.

Oxbow also commonly refers to a wide meander in a river; the land enclosed by such a loop; or, when the meander is cut off, the resulting oxbow lake.

Oxbow may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Oxbow (band), a music group from San Francisco
• "Oxbow", a song from the album Saint Cloud by Waxahatchee
• The Oxbow, an 1836 painting by Thomas Cole

Communities

Canada

• Oxbow, New Brunswick, a community
• Oxbow, Saskatchewan, a town

United States

• Oxbow Estates, Arizona, a census-designated place
• Oxbow, Maine, an unincorporated township
• Oxbow, New York, a hamlet
• Oxbow, North Dakota, a small city
• Oxbow, Oregon, a populated place
• Oxbo, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

Parks and historical sites

Canada

• Oxbow National Historic Site, an historic place in Northumberland County, New Brunswick, Canada

United States

• Oxbow Archeological District, near Midland, Michigan
• Oxbow Historic District, in northern Newbury, Vermont
• Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge, in Middlesex and Worcester counties in Massachusetts
• Oxbow Park (Seattle), a public park in Washington state
• Oxbow Park and Zollman Zoo, a campground and zoo located in Olmsted County, Minnesota
• Oxbow Regional Park, a natural area park in Oregon

Waterways, lakes, and dams

• The Oxbow (Connecticut River), a body of water in Northampton, Massachusetts, and subject of a Thomas Cole painting
• Oxbow Creek, a tributary of Tunkhannock Creek in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
• Oxbow Dam, located on the Snake River at the Idaho-Oregon border
• Oxbow Inlet, a tributary of Oxbow Creek in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania
• Oxbow Lake (New York), in Hamilton County, New York
• Oxbow Lake (Virginia), in Saint Paul, Virginia

Other uses

• Oxbow (horse), the 2013 Preakness Stakes winner
• Oxbow (surfwear), a French sporting equipment and apparel company
• Oxbow Books, a UK archaeology publisher and bookseller
• Oxbow Airport, adjacent to Oxbow, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Oxbow code, fragments of program code that were once needed but which are now never used
• Oxbow complex, a Late Archaic period complex situated in the Northern Great Plains
• Oxbow Corporation, an American energy company owned by Bill Koch
• Oxbow orthohantavirus, an RNA virus
• Oxbow School, a single semester high school in Napa, California
• Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists Residency, in Saugatuck, Michigan

See also

• All pages with titles containing Oxbow
• All pages with titles beginning with Oxbow