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