Oxbow

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Oxbow

Founded

1882

Land area3.13 km²

Coordinates49.23°, -102.17°

Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Oxbow is a town in the southeast of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located on the Canadian Pacific Railway and on Highway 18. It is approximately 58 kilometres (36 mi) west of Saskatchewan's border with Manitoba and approximately 26 kilometres (16 mi) north of the Canada–US border with North Dakota.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Theoren Fleury

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1968)

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Lanette Prediger

Canadian skeleton racer

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George Ramsay Cook

Canadian historian (1931–2016)

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Aren Miller

Canadian ice hockey player

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Eric Berntson

Canadian politician

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Reg Kerr

Canadian ice hockey player

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Lindsay Carson

Canadian ice hockey player

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Kris Porter

Canadian ice hockey forward

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Marj Mitchell

Canadian curler

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Richard Southam

Canadian politician (1907–1994)

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John James Harrop

Canadian politician

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Lorna Brown

Canadian artist (born 1958)

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Kimowan Metchewais

Cree visual artist (1963-2011)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Oxbow

Freyburn Farm, shorthorn and polled shorthorn production sale

Geroge Frey · 1972

Freyburn Farms shorthorn and polled shorthorns reduction sale

Geroge Frey · 1970

Two oxbow settlement types in central Saskatchewan

Ian G. Dyck · 1970

Pioneer days in the Oxbow and Glen Ewen districts

William Langrish · 1955

A re-evaluation of the Oxbow Dam Site (DhMn-1)

D'Arcy Clarke Green · 2005

Prairie dreams

Nan Clark · 1991

Search results from Open Library.

Recent natural events nearby

• Wildfire Ayers Pond, Prairie, Montana
  Wildfires · 2026-09-03 · 216 mi
• Incident Complex Rattlesnake Complex, Prairie, Montana
  Wildfires · 2026-09-04 · 223 mi
• Wildfire Snow, Custer, Montana
  Wildfires · 2026-09-02 · 235 mi

Wildfires, storms and other events from NASA EONET (last 12 months, within 250 mi).

Recently spotted species

Chickpea Milkvetch

Astragalus cicer

Seen 2026-09-05

Crested Wheatgrass

Agropyron cristatum

Seen 2026-09-05

Curlycup Gumweed

Grindelia squarrosa

Seen 2026-09-05

Wild Licorice

Glycyrrhiza lepidota

Seen 2026-09-05

Smooth Brome

Bromus inermis

Seen 2026-09-05

Smooth Greensnake

Opheodrys vernalis

Seen 2026-08-27

Western Snowberry

Symphoricarpos occidentalis

Seen 2026-08-26

Plains Garter Snake

Thamnophis radix

Seen 2026-08-26

Northern Leopard Frog

Lithobates pipiens

Seen 2026-08-13

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

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