Oxbow (disambiguation)
Look up oxbow in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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