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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%8C_%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%BE%DB%8C" title="آکسفورد، میسیسیپی – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="آکسفورد، میسیسیپی" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_(Mississippi)" title="Oxford (Mississippi) – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Oxford (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_(Mississipi)" title="Oxford (Mississipi) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Oxford (Mississipi)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_(kapital_sa_kondado_sa_Tinipong_Bansa,_Mississippi)" title="Oxford (kapital sa kondado sa Tinipong Bansa, Mississippi) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Oxford (kapital sa kondado sa Tinipong Bansa, Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford,_Mississippi" title="Oxford, Mississippi – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Oxford, Mississippi" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dag mw-list-item"><a href="https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford – Dagbani" lang="dag" hreflang="dag" data-title="Oxford" data-language-autonym="Dagbanli" data-language-local-name="Dagbani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dagbanli</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_(Mississippi)" title="Oxford (Mississippi) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Oxford (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_(Misisipi)" title="Oxford (Misisipi) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Oxford (Misisipi)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_(Mississippi)" title="Oxford (Mississippi) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Oxford (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF_(%D9%85%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%DB%8C)" title="آکسفورد (می‌سی‌سی‌پی) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="آکسفورد (می‌سی‌سی‌پی)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_(Mississippi)" title="Oxford (Mississippi) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Oxford (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-glk mw-list-item"><a href="https://glk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%81%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AF_(%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%BE%D9%8A)" title="آکسفؤرد (ميسيسيپي) – Gilaki" lang="glk" hreflang="glk" data-title="آکسفؤرد (ميسيسيپي)" data-language-autonym="گیلکی" data-language-local-name="Gilaki" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>گیلکی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%A5%EC%8A%A4%ED%8D%BC%EB%93%9C_(%EB%AF%B8%EC%8B%9C%EC%8B%9C%ED%94%BC%EC%A3%BC)" title="옥스퍼드 (미시시피주) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="옥스퍼드 (미시시피주)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford,_Mississippi" title="Oxford, Mississippi – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Oxford, Mississippi" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford,_Mississippi" title="Oxford, Mississippi – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Oxford, Mississippi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_(Mississippi)" title="Oxford (Mississippi) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Oxford (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4_(%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B8)" title="Оксфорд (Миссисипи) – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Оксфорд (Миссисипи)" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford,_Mississippi" title="Oxford, Mississippi – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Oxford, Mississippi" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford,_Mississippi" title="Oxford, Mississippi – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Oxford, Mississippi" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4_(%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B8)" title="Оксфорд (Миссисипи) – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Оксфорд (Миссисипи)" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_(Mississippi)" title="Oxford (Mississippi) – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Oxford (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ladin</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_(Mississippi)" title="Oxford (Mississippi) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Oxford (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford,_Mississippi" title="Oxford, Mississippi – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Oxford, Mississippi" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%AA)" title="اكسفورد (لافاييت) – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="اكسفورد (لافاييت)" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_(Mississippi)" title="Oxford (Mississippi) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Oxford (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89_(%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B7%E3%83%83%E3%83%94%E5%B7%9E)" title="オックスフォード (ミシシッピ州) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="オックスフォード (ミシシッピ州)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BA%D1%81%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4_(%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B8)" title="Оксфорд (Миссисипи) – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Оксфорд (Миссисипи)" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_(Mississippi)" title="Oxford (Mississippi) – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Oxford (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_(Missisipi)" title="Oxford (Missisipi) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Oxford (Missisipi)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" 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.infobox-above{font-size:125%;line-height:1.3em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-subheader{background-color:#cddeff;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-native{font-weight:normal;padding-top:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-other-name{font-size:78%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-official{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption{padding:0.3em 0 0 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption-link{padding:0.2em 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-nickname{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-fn{font-weight:normal;display:inline}</style><table class="infobox ib-settlement vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><div class="fn org">Oxford, Mississippi</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="category"><a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Mississippi" title="List of municipalities in Mississippi">City</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Oxford,_MS_collage.png" class="mw-file-description" title="From top, left to right: Swayze Field, Square Books, Oxford's downtown Square, The Grove at Ole Miss, The Lyceum at the University of Mississippi, Rowan Oak, Vaught–Hemingway Stadium, The Sandy and John Black Pavilion at Ole Miss"><img alt="From top, left to right: Swayze Field, Square Books, Oxford's downtown Square, The Grove at Ole Miss, The Lyceum at the University of Mississippi, Rowan Oak, Vaught–Hemingway Stadium, The Sandy and John Black Pavilion at Ole Miss" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Oxford%2C_MS_collage.png/280px-Oxford%2C_MS_collage.png" decoding="async" width="280" height="418" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Oxford%2C_MS_collage.png/420px-Oxford%2C_MS_collage.png 1.5x, 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colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1028600610">.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols{text-align:center;display:table;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-row{display:table-row}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cell{display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cellt{display:table-cell;vertical-align:top}</style> <div class="ib-settlement-cols"> <div class="ib-settlement-cols-row"><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Oxford,_Mississippi.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Oxford, Mississippi"><img alt="Flag of Oxford, Mississippi" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Oxford%2C_Mississippi.png/110px-Flag_of_Oxford%2C_Mississippi.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="74" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Oxford%2C_Mississippi.png/165px-Flag_of_Oxford%2C_Mississippi.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_Oxford%2C_Mississippi.png/220px-Flag_of_Oxford%2C_Mississippi.png 2x" data-file-width="323" data-file-height="216" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Flag</div></div><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Logo_of_Oxford,_Mississippi.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Official logo of Oxford, Mississippi"><img alt="Official logo of Oxford, Mississippi" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a0/Logo_of_Oxford%2C_Mississippi.png/95px-Logo_of_Oxford%2C_Mississippi.png" decoding="async" width="95" height="95" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a0/Logo_of_Oxford%2C_Mississippi.png/143px-Logo_of_Oxford%2C_Mississippi.png 1.5x, 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Lafayette_County_Mississippi_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Oxford_Highlighted.svg/375px-Lafayette_County_Mississippi_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Oxford_Highlighted.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Lafayette_County_Mississippi_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Oxford_Highlighted.svg/500px-Lafayette_County_Mississippi_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Oxford_Highlighted.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="550" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Location of Oxford, Mississippi</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Usa_edcp_location_map.svg/250px-Usa_edcp_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Usa_edcp_location_map.svg/375px-Usa_edcp_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Usa_edcp_location_map.svg/500px-Usa_edcp_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1181" data-file-height="731" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:63.791%;left:61.559%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Oxford, Mississippi"><img alt="Oxford, Mississippi" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, 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href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Oxford,_Mississippi&params=34_22_20_N_89_30_29_W_region:US-MS_type:city"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">34°22′20″N</span> <span class="longitude">89°30′29″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">34.37222°N 89.50806°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">34.37222; -89.50806</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">State</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Mississippi" title="List of counties in Mississippi">County</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lafayette_County,_Mississippi" title="Lafayette County, Mississippi">Lafayette</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Namesake" title="Namesake">Named for</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>, England</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Mayor" title="Mayor">Mayor</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Robyn Tannehill (<a href="/wiki/Independent_Politician" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Politician">I</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-CenPopGazetteer2020_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CenPopGazetteer2020-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">26.71 sq mi (69.18 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">26.62 sq mi (68.94 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Water</th><td class="infobox-data">0.09 sq mi (0.24 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elevation<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-gnis_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gnis-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th><td class="infobox-data">449 ft (137 m)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(<a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 United States Census">2020</a>)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">25,416</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">954.88/sq mi (368.68/km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%926" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−6">UTC−6</a> (<a href="/wiki/North_American_Central_Time_Zone" class="mw-redirect" title="North American Central Time Zone">Central (CST)</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%925" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−5">UTC−5</a> (CDT)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ZIP_Code" title="ZIP Code">ZIP Code</a></th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">38655</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbering_plan" title="Telephone numbering plan">Area code</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Area_code_662" title="Area code 662">662</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Federal_Information_Processing_Standard" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Information Processing Standard">FIPS code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">28-54840</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_Names_Information_System" title="Geographic Names Information System">GNIS</a> feature ID</th><td class="infobox-data">2404454<sup id="cite_ref-gnis_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gnis-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oxfordms.net/">oxfordms.net</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lafayette_Co_Mississippi_courthouse_during_Double_Decker_Festival.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Lafayette_Co_Mississippi_courthouse_during_Double_Decker_Festival.jpg/220px-Lafayette_Co_Mississippi_courthouse_during_Double_Decker_Festival.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Lafayette_Co_Mississippi_courthouse_during_Double_Decker_Festival.jpg/330px-Lafayette_Co_Mississippi_courthouse_during_Double_Decker_Festival.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Lafayette_Co_Mississippi_courthouse_during_Double_Decker_Festival.jpg/440px-Lafayette_Co_Mississippi_courthouse_during_Double_Decker_Festival.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2848" data-file-height="2134" /></a><figcaption>A double-decker tourist bus and the former <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_flag" class="mw-redirect" title="Mississippi flag">Mississippi state flag</a> contrast beside the Lafayette County Courthouse in Oxford, during the 2007 Double Decker Festival.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Oxford</b> is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Mississippi" title="List of municipalities in Mississippi">14th most populous city</a> in <a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a>, United States, and the <a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">county seat</a> of <a href="/wiki/Lafayette_County,_Mississippi" title="Lafayette County, Mississippi">Lafayette County</a>, 75 miles (121 km) southeast of <a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis</a>. A <a href="/wiki/College_town" title="College town">college town</a>, Oxford surrounds the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Mississippi" title="University of Mississippi">University of Mississippi</a> or "Ole Miss". Founded in 1837, the city is named for <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>, England. </p><p>Purchasing the land from a Chickasaw, pioneers founded Oxford in 1837. In 1841, the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_State_Legislature" class="mw-redirect" title="Mississippi State Legislature">Mississippi State Legislature</a> selected it as the site of the state's first university, Ole Miss. Oxford is also the hometown of <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize" title="Nobel Prize">Nobel Prize</a>-winning novelist <a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a>, and served as the inspiration for his fictional <a href="/wiki/Yoknapatawpha_County" title="Yoknapatawpha County">Jefferson in Yoknapatawpha County</a>. <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Quintus_Cincinnatus_Lamar" title="Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar">Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar</a>, who served as a US Supreme Court Justice and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Interior" title="United States Secretary of the Interior">Secretary of the Interior</a>, also lived and is buried in Oxford. </p><p>At the 2020 US Census, the population was 25,416.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Walmart_grand_opening_in_Oxford%2C_MS_%281984%29.webm/170px--Walmart_grand_opening_in_Oxford%2C_MS_%281984%29.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="170" height="128" data-durationhint="86" data-mwtitle="Walmart_grand_opening_in_Oxford,_MS_(1984).webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Walmart_grand_opening_in_Oxford,_MS_(1984).webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Walmart_grand_opening_in_Oxford%2C_MS_%281984%29.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-width="480" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/94/Walmart_grand_opening_in_Oxford%2C_MS_%281984%29.webm/Walmart_grand_opening_in_Oxford%2C_MS_%281984%29.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="480" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/94/Walmart_grand_opening_in_Oxford%2C_MS_%281984%29.webm/Walmart_grand_opening_in_Oxford%2C_MS_%281984%29.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="480" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/94/Walmart_grand_opening_in_Oxford%2C_MS_%281984%29.webm/Walmart_grand_opening_in_Oxford%2C_MS_%281984%29.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="320" data-height="240" /></video></span><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Walmart" title="Walmart">Wal-Mart</a> opening a location in Oxford in 1984</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="19th_century">19th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Oxford and Lafayette County were formed from lands ceded by the <a href="/wiki/Chickasaw_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Chickasaw people">Chickasaw people</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Pontotoc_Creek" title="Treaty of Pontotoc Creek">Treaty of Pontotoc Creek</a> in 1832. The county was organized in 1836, and in 1837 three pioneers—John Martin, John Chisom, and John Craig—purchased land from Hoka, a female Chickasaw landowner, as a site for the town.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They named it "Oxford", intending to promote it as a center of learning in the <a href="/wiki/Old_Southwest" title="Old Southwest">Old Southwest</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1841, the Mississippi legislature selected Oxford as the site of the state university, which opened in 1848. </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>, Oxford was occupied by <a href="/wiki/Union_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Union Army">Union Army</a> troops under Generals <a href="/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Ulysses S. Grant</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_T._Sherman" class="mw-redirect" title="William T. Sherman">William T. Sherman</a> in 1862; in 1864 Major General <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Smith" title="Andrew Jackson Smith">Andrew Jackson Smith</a> burned the buildings in the town square, including the county courthouse. In the postwar <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_era" title="Reconstruction era">Reconstruction era</a>, the town recovered slowly, aided by federal judge <a href="/wiki/Robert_Andrews_Hill" title="Robert Andrews Hill">Robert Andrews Hill</a>, who secured funds to build a new courthouse in 1872. </p><p>During this period many African American <a href="/wiki/Freedman" title="Freedman">freedmen</a> moved from farms into town and established a neighborhood known as "Freedmen Town", where they built houses, businesses, churches and schools, and exercised all the rights of U.S. citizenship.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even after Mississippi <a href="/wiki/Disenfranchisement_after_the_Reconstruction_era" class="mw-redirect" title="Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction era">disenfranchised</a> most African Americans in the 1890 <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Mississippi" title="Constitution of Mississippi">Constitution of Mississippi</a>, they continued to build their lives in the face of discrimination. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="20th_century">20th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/Civil_Rights_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil Rights Movement">Civil Rights Movement</a>, Oxford drew national attention in the <a href="/wiki/Ole_Miss_riot_of_1962" title="Ole Miss riot of 1962">Ole Miss riot of 1962</a>. State officials, including Governor <a href="/wiki/Ross_Barnett" title="Ross Barnett">Ross Barnett</a>, prevented <a href="/wiki/James_Meredith" title="James Meredith">James Meredith</a>, an African American, from enrolling at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Mississippi" title="University of Mississippi">University of Mississippi</a>, even after the federal courts had ruled that he be admitted. Following secret face-saving negotiations with Barnett, President <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> ordered 127 <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service" title="United States Marshals Service">U.S. Marshals</a>, 316 deputized <a href="/wiki/United_States_Border_Patrol" title="United States Border Patrol">U.S. Border Patrol</a> agents and 97 federalized <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Prisons" title="Federal Bureau of Prisons">Federal Bureau of Prisons</a> officers to accompany Meredith.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thousands of armed "volunteers" flowed into the Oxford area. Meredith traveled to Oxford under armed guard to register, but riots by segregationists broke out in protest of his admittance. </p><p>That night, cars were burned, federal law enforcement were pelted with rocks, bricks and small arms fire, and university property was damaged by 3,000 rioters. Two civilians were killed by gunshot wounds, and the riot spread into adjacent areas of the city of Oxford.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Order was finally restored to the campus with the early morning arrival of 3,000 nationalized <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_National_Guard" title="Mississippi National Guard">Mississippi National Guard</a> and federal troops, who camped in the city.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="21st_century">21st century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 21st century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>More than 3,000 journalists came to Oxford on September 26, 2008, to cover the <a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_debates" title="2008 United States presidential debates">first presidential debate of 2008</a>, which was held at the University of Mississippi.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Oxford is in central Lafayette County in northern Mississippi, about 75 miles (121 km) south-southeast of <a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis, Tennessee</a>. </p><p>According to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a>, the city has a total area of 26.7 square miles (69.2 km<sup>2</sup>), of which 26.6 square miles (68.9 km<sup>2</sup>) are land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km<sup>2</sup>), or 0.35%, is water.<sup id="cite_ref-Gazetteer_2019_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gazetteer_2019-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The campus of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Mississippi" title="University of Mississippi">University of Mississippi</a>, west of downtown, is an unincorporated area surrounded by the city. </p><p>The city is located in the North Central Hills region of Mississippi. The region is known for its heavily forested hills made up of red clay. The area is higher and greater in relief than areas to the west (such as the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Delta" title="Mississippi Delta">Mississippi Delta</a> or loess bluffs along the Delta), but lower in elevation than areas in northeast Mississippi. The changes in elevation can be noticed when traveling on the Highway 6 bypass, since the east-west highway tends to transect many of the north-south ridges. Downtown Oxford sits on one of these ridges and the University of Mississippi sits on another one, while the main commercial corridors on either side of the city sit in valleys. </p><p>Oxford is located at the confluence of highways from eight directions: <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Highway_6" title="Mississippi Highway 6">Mississippi Highway 6</a> (now co-signed with <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_278" title="U.S. Route 278">US-278</a>) runs west 25 miles (40 km) to <a href="/wiki/Batesville,_Mississippi" title="Batesville, Mississippi">Batesville</a> and east 31 miles (50 km) to <a href="/wiki/Pontotoc,_Mississippi" title="Pontotoc, Mississippi">Pontotoc</a>; <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Highway_7" title="Mississippi Highway 7">Highway 7</a> runs north 30 miles (48 km) to <a href="/wiki/Holly_Springs,_Mississippi" title="Holly Springs, Mississippi">Holly Springs</a> and south 18 miles (29 km) to <a href="/wiki/Water_Valley,_Mississippi" title="Water Valley, Mississippi">Water Valley</a>. <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Highway_30" title="Mississippi Highway 30">Highway 30</a> goes northeast 33 miles (53 km) to <a href="/wiki/New_Albany,_Mississippi" title="New Albany, Mississippi">New Albany</a>; Highway 334 ("Old Highway 6") leads southeast 19 miles (31 km) to <a href="/wiki/Toccopola,_Mississippi" title="Toccopola, Mississippi">Toccopola</a>; Taylor Road leads southwest 9 miles (14 km) to <a href="/wiki/Taylor,_Mississippi" title="Taylor, Mississippi">Taylor</a>; and Highway 314 ("Old Sardis Road") leads northwest, formerly to <a href="/wiki/Sardis,_Mississippi" title="Sardis, Mississippi">Sardis</a> but now 11 miles (18 km) to the Clear Creek Recreation Area on <a href="/wiki/Sardis_Lake_(Mississippi)" title="Sardis Lake (Mississippi)">Sardis Lake</a>. </p><p>The streets in the downtown area follow a grid pattern with two <a href="/wiki/Street_name" title="Street name">naming conventions</a>. Many of the north-south streets are numbered from west to east, beginning at the old railroad depot, with numbers from four to nineteen. The place of "Twelfth Street", however, is taken by North and South Lamar Boulevard (formerly North Street and South Street). The east-west avenues are named for the U.S. presidents in chronological order from north to south, from <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">Washington</a> to <a href="/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland">Cleveland</a>; here again, there are gaps: there is no street for <a href="/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams" title="John Quincy Adams">John Quincy Adams</a>, who shares a last name with <a href="/wiki/John_Adams" title="John Adams">John Adams</a>; "Polk Avenue" is replaced by University Avenue; and "Arthur Avenue" is lacking. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Oxford has a <a href="/wiki/Humid_subtropical_climate" title="Humid subtropical climate">humid subtropical climate</a> (<i>Cfa</i>) and is in <a href="/wiki/Hardiness_zone" title="Hardiness zone">hardiness zone</a> 7b. </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Oxford, Mississippi (<a href="/wiki/University_of_Mississippi" title="University of Mississippi">University of Mississippi</a>) 1991–2020, extremes 1893–present </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">80<br />(27) </td> <td style="background: #FF5600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">84<br />(29) </td> <td style="background: #FF3A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">91<br />(33) </td> <td style="background: #FF3300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">93<br />(34) </td> <td style="background: #FF1F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">98<br />(37) </td> <td style="background: #FF0A00; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">104<br />(40) </td> <td style="background: #F80000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">108<br />(42) </td> <td style="background: #F80000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">107<br />(42) </td> <td style="background: #DC0000; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">111<br />(44) </td> <td style="background: #FF1F00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">98<br />(37) </td> <td style="background: #FF4100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">89<br />(32) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">81<br />(27) </td> <td style="background: #EA0000; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">110<br />(43) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean maximum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FF8409; color:#000000;" class="notheme">72.1<br />(22.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF7800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">75.2<br />(24.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF5D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">82.2<br />(27.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF4B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">87.0<br />(30.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF3C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">90.8<br />(32.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF2D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">94.9<br />(34.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF2400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">97.1<br />(36.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF2200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">97.7<br />(36.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF2D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">94.8<br />(34.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF4200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">89.4<br />(31.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF6600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">80.1<br />(26.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF8104; color:#000000;" class="notheme">72.9<br />(22.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF1E00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">98.8<br />(37.1) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFD0A1; color:#000000;" class="notheme">52.3<br />(11.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFBE7D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57.1<br />(13.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF9C39; color:#000000;" class="notheme">65.8<br />(18.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF7C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">74.2<br />(23.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF5E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">82.0<br />(27.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF4500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">88.6<br />(31.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF3B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">91.3<br />(32.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF3B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">91.0<br />(32.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF4E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">86.2<br />(30.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF7500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">76.1<br />(24.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFA246; color:#000000;" class="notheme">64.3<br />(17.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFC58C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">55.0<br />(12.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF7E00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">73.7<br />(23.2) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #FFFAF5; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41.4<br />(5.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFEBD7; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45.4<br />(7.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFCC99; color:#000000;" class="notheme">53.5<br />(11.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFAC5A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">61.6<br />(16.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF8B17; color:#000000;" class="notheme">70.4<br />(21.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF6E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">77.7<br />(25.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">80.7<br />(27.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF6600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">79.8<br />(26.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF7D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">73.9<br />(23.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFA852; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62.6<br />(17.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFD1A4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">51.9<br />(11.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFEFDF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">44.2<br />(6.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFAB58; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">61.9<br />(16.6) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #E2E2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.6<br />(−0.8) </td> <td style="background: #ECECFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.8<br />(1.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFAF6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">41.2<br />(5.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFDDBB; color:#000000;" class="notheme">48.9<br />(9.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFB76F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">58.9<br />(14.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF9932; color:#000000;" class="notheme">66.8<br />(19.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF8B18; color:#000000;" class="notheme">70.2<br />(21.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF9225; color:#000000;" class="notheme">68.6<br />(20.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFAC5A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">61.6<br />(16.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFDBB8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">49.2<br />(9.6) </td> <td style="background: #FDFDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">39.5<br />(4.2) </td> <td style="background: #EAEAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">33.3<br />(0.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFD8B1; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">50.2<br />(10.1) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean minimum °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #AAAAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.1<br />(−11.1) </td> <td style="background: #B9B9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.1<br />(−8.3) </td> <td style="background: #CACAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.5<br />(−5.3) </td> <td style="background: #E5E5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.5<br />(−0.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFF6EE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">42.2<br />(5.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFC58B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">55.3<br />(12.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFAE5D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">61.1<br />(16.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFB56B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">59.3<br />(15.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFE9D4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">45.7<br />(7.6) </td> <td style="background: #E7E7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.2<br />(0.1) </td> <td style="background: #C9C9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.1<br />(−5.5) </td> <td style="background: #BBBBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.4<br />(−8.1) </td> <td style="background: #A3A3FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">9.7<br />(−12.4) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °F (°C) </th> <td style="background: #5F5FFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">−13<br />(−25) </td> <td style="background: #6A6AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−10<br />(−23) </td> <td style="background: #9B9BFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7<br />(−14) </td> <td style="background: #C6C6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21<br />(−6) </td> <td style="background: #E1E1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31<br />(−1) </td> <td style="background: #FFF4EA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">43<br />(6) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">50<br />(10) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFC0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">48<br />(9) </td> <td style="background: #E6E6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #C0C0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20<br />(−7) </td> <td style="background: #9B9BFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6<br />(−14) </td> <td style="background: #6A6AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−10<br />(−23) </td> <td style="background: #5F5FFF; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">−13<br />(−25) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> inches (mm) </th> <td style="background: #3DFF3D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.13<br />(130) </td> <td style="background: #0CFF0C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.82<br />(148) </td> <td style="background: #2BFF2B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.61<br />(142) </td> <td style="background: #08FF08; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.30<br />(160) </td> <td style="background: #34FF34; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.35<br />(136) </td> <td style="background: #32FF32; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.22<br />(133) </td> <td style="background: #5BFF5B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.35<br />(110) </td> <td style="background: #6BFF6B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.90<br />(99) </td> <td style="background: #63FF63; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.99<br />(101) </td> <td style="background: #64FF64; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.10<br />(104) </td> <td style="background: #57FF57; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.30<br />(109) </td> <td style="background: #0AFF0A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.45<br />(164) </td> <td style="background: #3CFF3C; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">60.52<br />(1,537) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average snowfall inches (cm) </th> <td style="background: #E1E1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.8<br />(2.0) </td> <td style="background: #F6F6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.2<br />(0.51) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.1<br />(0.25) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0<br />(0.0) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.1<br />(0.25) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">1.2<br />(3.0) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average precipitation days <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(≥ 0.01 in)</span> </th> <td style="background: #6A6AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.0 </td> <td style="background: #6C6CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.8 </td> <td style="background: #6E6EFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.7 </td> <td style="background: #7B7BFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.3 </td> <td style="background: #7777FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.0 </td> <td style="background: #7C7CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.2 </td> <td style="background: #8383FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.0 </td> <td style="background: #9292FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.8 </td> <td style="background: #A0A0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.4 </td> <td style="background: #9D9DFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.9 </td> <td style="background: #8282FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.8 </td> <td style="background: #6868FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.2 </td> <td style="background: #7F7FFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">122.1 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average snowy days <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(≥ 0.1 in)</span> </th> <td style="background: #F7F7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.6 </td> <td style="background: #F9F9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.4 </td> <td style="background: #FDFDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.1 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.0 </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.3 </td> <td style="background: #FDFDFF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">1.4 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: <a href="/wiki/NOAA" class="mw-redirect" title="NOAA">NOAA</a><sup id="cite_ref-NOAA_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NOAA-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NCEI_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NCEI-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224496135">.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop{border-spacing:1px;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:0.3em;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop caption{background-color:lavender;color:black;padding-right:0.2em;padding-left:0.2em;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-bottom:none}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop th[scope=col]{border-bottom:1px solid black}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(2){text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td.us-census-pop-estimate{padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(3){padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(4){padding-left:0.5em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-footnote{border-top:1px solid black;font-size:85%;text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-right{float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-left{float:left;clear:left;margin:0 1em 1em 0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-none{float:none;margin:0 1em 1em 0}}</style> <table class="us-census-pop us-census-pop-right"> <caption>Historical population</caption> <tbody><tr><th scope="col">Census</th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Population">Pop.</abbr></th><th scope="col"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1152813436">.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="sr-only">Note</span></th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Percent change">%±</abbr></th></tr> <tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1850_United_States_census" title="1850 United States census">1850</a></th><td>492</td><td></td><td>—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1870_United_States_census" title="1870 United States census">1870</a></th><td>1,422</td><td></td><td>—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1880_United_States_census" title="1880 United States census">1880</a></th><td>1,534</td><td></td><td>7.9%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1890_United_States_census" title="1890 United States census">1890</a></th><td>1,546</td><td></td><td>0.8%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1900_United_States_census" title="1900 United States census">1900</a></th><td>1,820</td><td></td><td>17.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1910_United_States_census" title="1910 United States census">1910</a></th><td>2,014</td><td></td><td>10.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1920_United_States_census" title="1920 United States census">1920</a></th><td>2,150</td><td></td><td>6.8%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1930_United_States_census" title="1930 United States census">1930</a></th><td>2,890</td><td></td><td>34.4%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1940_United_States_census" title="1940 United States census">1940</a></th><td>3,433</td><td></td><td>18.8%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1950_United_States_census" title="1950 United States census">1950</a></th><td>3,956</td><td></td><td>15.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_census" title="1960 United States census">1960</a></th><td>5,283</td><td></td><td>33.5%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1970_United_States_census" title="1970 United States census">1970</a></th><td>8,519</td><td></td><td>61.3%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_census" title="1980 United States census">1980</a></th><td>9,882</td><td></td><td>16.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1990_United_States_census" title="1990 United States census">1990</a></th><td>9,984</td><td></td><td>1.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_census" title="2000 United States census">2000</a></th><td>11,756</td><td></td><td>17.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_census" title="2010 United States census">2010</a></th><td>18,916</td><td></td><td>60.9%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020</a></th><td>25,416</td><td></td><td>34.4%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="us-census-pop-footnote">U.S. Decennial Census<sup id="cite_ref-DecennialCensus_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DecennialCensus-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2020_census">2020 census</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 2020 census"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Oxford racial composition<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Race </th> <th>Num. </th> <th>Perc. </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/White_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="White (U.S. Census)">White</a> </td> <td>16,559 </td> <td>65.15% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/African_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="African American (U.S. Census)">Black or African American</a> </td> <td>5,656 </td> <td>22.25% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Native_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American (U.S. Census)">Native American</a> </td> <td>12 </td> <td>0.05% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Asian_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian (U.S. Census)">Asian</a> </td> <td>1,279 </td> <td>5.03% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)">Pacific Islander</a> </td> <td>7 </td> <td>0.03% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">Other/mixed</a> </td> <td>861 </td> <td>3.39% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic (U.S. Census)">Hispanic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Latino_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Latino (U.S. Census)">Latino</a> </td> <td>1,042 </td> <td>4.1% </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>As of the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 United States Census">2020 United States Census</a>, there were 25,416 people, 10,351 households, and 5,089 families residing in the city. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010_census">2010 census</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 2010 census"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of the <a href="/wiki/Census" title="Census">census</a><sup id="cite_ref-GR2_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR2-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of 2010, there were 18,916 people, with 8,648 households residing in the city. The racial makeup of the city was 72.3% <a href="/wiki/White_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="White (U.S. Census)">White</a>, 21.8% <a href="/wiki/African_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="African American (U.S. Census)">African American</a>, 0.3% <a href="/wiki/Native_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American (U.S. Census)">Native American</a>, 3.3% <a href="/wiki/Asian_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian (U.S. Census)">Asian</a>, 0.1% <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)">Pacific Islander</a>, and 1.1% from two or more races. <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic (U.S. Census)">Hispanic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Latino_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Latino (U.S. Census)">Latino</a> people of any race were 2.5% of the population. The average household size was 2.09. </p><p>The median income for a household in the city was $38,872, and the average household income was $64,643. The <a href="/wiki/Per_capita_income" title="Per capita income">per capita income</a> for the city was $29,195.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> About 12% of families and 32.3% of the population were below the <a href="/wiki/Poverty_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Poverty line">poverty line</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Arts_and_culture">Arts and culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Arts and culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Phone_Booth_Oxford_MS.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Phone_Booth_Oxford_MS.jpg/170px-Phone_Booth_Oxford_MS.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Phone_Booth_Oxford_MS.jpg/255px-Phone_Booth_Oxford_MS.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Phone_Booth_Oxford_MS.jpg/340px-Phone_Booth_Oxford_MS.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3024" data-file-height="4032" /></a><figcaption>Oxford phone booth by City Hall</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Attractions">Attractions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Attractions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rowan_Oak.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Rowan_Oak.JPG/220px-Rowan_Oak.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Rowan_Oak.JPG/330px-Rowan_Oak.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Rowan_Oak.JPG/440px-Rowan_Oak.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Rowan_Oak" title="Rowan Oak">Rowan Oak</a>, the home of <a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Book_store_on_the_square_in_Oxford_MS.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Book_store_on_the_square_in_Oxford_MS.jpg/170px-Book_store_on_the_square_in_Oxford_MS.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Book_store_on_the_square_in_Oxford_MS.jpg/255px-Book_store_on_the_square_in_Oxford_MS.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Book_store_on_the_square_in_Oxford_MS.jpg/340px-Book_store_on_the_square_in_Oxford_MS.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3024" data-file-height="4032" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Square_Books" title="Square Books">Square Books</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Court_House_Oxford.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Court_House_Oxford.jpg/170px-Court_House_Oxford.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Court_House_Oxford.jpg/255px-Court_House_Oxford.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Court_House_Oxford.jpg/340px-Court_House_Oxford.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3024" data-file-height="4032" /></a><figcaption>Lafayette County Court House</figcaption></figure> <p>In addition to the historic Lafayette County Courthouse, the Square is known for an abundance of locally owned restaurants, specialty boutiques, and professional offices, along with Oxford City Hall. </p> <ul><li>The J. E. Neilson Co., located on the southeast corner of the Square, is the South's oldest documented store. Founded as a trading post in 1839, Neilson's continues to anchor the Oxford square. Neilsons (pronounced Nelsons) was one of the few stores to survive the burning of Oxford during the Civil war. It stands within eyesight of one of Oxford's two confederate statues (one was erected after the original faced south because the South "never retreats;" a Falkner (William added a "U") paid for the second). Neilson's also features a letter from William Faulkner, who repeatedly refused to pay debts owed to the department store. When the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a> hit Oxford and most of the banks in town closed, Neilson's acted as a surrogate bank, cashing paychecks for university employees and others. Neilson's is also the only store in Oxford to carry supplies for Boy Scout uniforms.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Square_Books" title="Square Books">Square Books</a>, founded in 1979, is an <a href="/wiki/Independent_bookstore" title="Independent bookstore">independent bookstore</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A sister store, Off Square Books, is several doors down the street to the east. It deals in used and remainder books and is the venue for a radio show called <i>Thacker Mountain Radio</i>, with host Jim Dees, that is broadcast statewide on Mississippi Public Broadcasting. The show often draws comparisons to <a href="/wiki/Garrison_Keillor" title="Garrison Keillor">Garrison Keillor</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/A_Prairie_Home_Companion" title="A Prairie Home Companion">A Prairie Home Companion</a></i> for its mix of author readings and musical guests. A third store, Square Books Jr., deals exclusively in children's books and educational toys.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyric_Theater_(Oxford,_Mississippi)" title="Lyric Theater (Oxford, Mississippi)">The Lyric Theater</a>, just off the courthouse square, is Oxford's largest music venue, with a capacity near 1200. Originally built in the late 1800s, the structure became a livery stable owned by William Faulkner's family in the early part of the 20th century. During the 1920s it became Oxford's first motion picture theater, the Lyric. In 1949, Faulkner walked from <a href="/wiki/Rowan_Oak" title="Rowan Oak">his home</a> in Oxford to his childhood stable for the world premiere of MGM's <i>Intruder in the Dust</i>, adapted from one of his novels. The building housed office space and a health center from the early 1980s. After extensive restoration, the Lyric reopened on July 3, 2008, as a live music venue. It also is used occasionally for film and live drama.</li> <li>The Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts on the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Mississippi" title="University of Mississippi">University of Mississippi</a>'s campus hosts a broad range of events, such as symphony performances, operas, musicals, plays, comedy tours, chamber music, and guest lectures. The Ford Center, as it is commonly known, also hosted the 2008 presidential debate between former President Barack Obama and Senator John McCain.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/University_of_Mississippi_Museum" title="University of Mississippi Museum">University of Mississippi Museum</a> is located on the University of Mississippi's main campus. The Robinson collection of Greek and Roman antiquities and the Millington-Barnard collection of 19th century scientific instruments are permanent collections of the museum. The museum is also home to the personal collections of Kate Skipwith and Mary Buie. The permanent exhibits are free to the public.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Burns-Belfry Museum was previously the Burns Methodist Episcopal Church organized by freed African Americans in 1910. Now, the museum pays tribute to its role in the Civil War era. The museum houses a permanent exhibit on African American history that spans from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Culture">Culture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Oxford has had a diverse music scene for many years. Oxford's relatively close proximity to large music cities such as <a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans,_Louisiana" class="mw-redirect" title="New Orleans, Louisiana">New Orleans</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville</a>, influence its musical stylings. Musicians past and present living in Oxford include <a href="/wiki/Beanland_(band)" title="Beanland (band)">Beanland</a>, The Cooters, <a href="/wiki/Bass_Drum_of_Death" title="Bass Drum of Death">Bass Drum of Death</a>, Parliamentary Procedure, <a href="/wiki/Kudzu_Kings" title="Kudzu Kings">Kudzu Kings</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blue_Mountain_(band)" title="Blue Mountain (band)">Blue Mountain</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_McConnell" title="George McConnell">George McConnell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Herring" title="Caroline Herring">Caroline Herring</a>, and blues <a href="/wiki/Harmonica" title="Harmonica">harp</a> player <a href="/wiki/Adam_Gussow" title="Adam Gussow">Adam Gussow</a>.</li> <li>Oxford is also the home of the music label <a href="/wiki/Fat_Possum_Records" title="Fat Possum Records">Fat Possum Records</a>, who released records by blues legends <a href="/wiki/R._L._Burnside" title="R. L. Burnside">R. L. Burnside</a> and <a href="/wiki/Junior_Kimbrough" title="Junior Kimbrough">Junior Kimbrough</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/The_Black_Keys" title="The Black Keys">The Black Keys</a>. <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Marr" title="Johnny Marr">Johnny Marr</a>, former <a href="/wiki/Guitarist" title="Guitarist">guitarist</a> for <a href="/wiki/The_Smiths" title="The Smiths">The Smiths</a> and current member of <a href="/wiki/Modest_Mouse" title="Modest Mouse">Modest Mouse</a> bought a home in Oxford but no longer lives in it. Former <a href="/wiki/Derek_and_the_Dominos" title="Derek and the Dominos">Derek and the Dominos</a> member <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Whitlock" title="Bobby Whitlock">Bobby Whitlock</a> lived in Oxford where he had a ranch and his own studio.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>Musicians <a href="/wiki/Modest_Mouse" title="Modest Mouse">Modest Mouse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gavin_Degraw" class="mw-redirect" title="Gavin Degraw">Gavin Degraw</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elvis_Costello" title="Elvis Costello">Elvis Costello</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Hives" title="The Hives">The Hives</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Counting_Crows" title="Counting Crows">Counting Crows</a> have recorded albums at <a href="/wiki/Sweet_Tea_Recording_Studio" title="Sweet Tea Recording Studio">Sweet Tea Recording Studio</a> in Oxford. Dennis Herring, the owner of Sweet Tea, has received Grammy awards for his work with artists such as <a href="/wiki/Jars_of_Clay" title="Jars of Clay">Jars of Clay</a> and blues great <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Guy" title="Buddy Guy">Buddy Guy</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> wrote a song called "<a href="/wiki/Oxford_Town" title="Oxford Town">Oxford Town</a>", which was included on his 1963 album <i><a href="/wiki/The_Freewheelin%27_Bob_Dylan" title="The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan">The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan</a></i>. The song was about the violent events surrounding the admission of <a href="/wiki/James_Meredith" title="James Meredith">James Meredith</a> into the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Mississippi" title="University of Mississippi">University of Mississippi</a> in 1962. Dylan played a memorable concert at the Tad Smith Coliseum on the Ole Miss campus in November 1990, which opened with a performance of the song "Oxford Town".</li> <li>Oxford has been the setting for numerous movies, including <i><a href="/wiki/Intruder_in_the_Dust_(1949_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Intruder in the Dust (1949 film)">Intruder in the Dust</a></i> (1949, based on the <a href="/wiki/Intruder_in_the_Dust" title="Intruder in the Dust">Faulkner novel</a>), <i><a href="/wiki/Home_from_the_Hill_(film)" title="Home from the Hill (film)">Home from the Hill</a></i> (1960), <i>Barn Burning</i> (1980, based on the <a href="/wiki/Barn_Burning" title="Barn Burning">Faulkner short story</a>), <i>Rush</i> (1981 documentary), <i><a href="/wiki/Heart_of_Dixie_(film)" title="Heart of Dixie (film)">Heart of Dixie</a></i> (1989), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gun_in_Betty_Lou%27s_Handbag" title="The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag">The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag</a></i> (1992), <i>Glorious Mail</i> (2005), <i>Sorry, We're Open</i> (2008 documentary), <i>The Night of the Loup Garou</i> (2009), <i>Where I Begin</i> (2010), and parts of <i><a href="/wiki/The_People_vs._Larry_Flynt" title="The People vs. Larry Flynt">The People vs. Larry Flynt</a></i> (1997).</li> <li>American journalist and novelist <a href="/wiki/Joan_Didion" title="Joan Didion">Joan Didion</a> mentions Oxford in her 1979 collection of essays <i><a href="/wiki/The_White_Album_(book)" title="The White Album (book)">The White Album</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Historic_sites">Historic sites</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Historic sites"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ammadelle,_637_North_Lamar_Boulevard,_Oxford_(Lafayette_County,_Mississippi).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Ammadelle%2C_637_North_Lamar_Boulevard%2C_Oxford_%28Lafayette_County%2C_Mississippi%29.jpg/220px-Ammadelle%2C_637_North_Lamar_Boulevard%2C_Oxford_%28Lafayette_County%2C_Mississippi%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Ammadelle%2C_637_North_Lamar_Boulevard%2C_Oxford_%28Lafayette_County%2C_Mississippi%29.jpg/330px-Ammadelle%2C_637_North_Lamar_Boulevard%2C_Oxford_%28Lafayette_County%2C_Mississippi%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Ammadelle%2C_637_North_Lamar_Boulevard%2C_Oxford_%28Lafayette_County%2C_Mississippi%29.jpg/440px-Ammadelle%2C_637_North_Lamar_Boulevard%2C_Oxford_%28Lafayette_County%2C_Mississippi%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="947" data-file-height="666" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Ammadelle" title="Ammadelle">Ammadelle</a> (1859) was designed by <a href="/wiki/Central_Park" title="Central Park">Central Park</a> co-designer <a href="/wiki/Calvert_Vaux" title="Calvert Vaux">Calvert Vaux</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>See also <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Lafayette_County,_Mississippi" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in Lafayette County, Mississippi">National Register of Historic Places listings in Lafayette County, Mississippi</a><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Lyceum-The_Circle_Historic_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyceum-The Circle Historic District">Lyceum-The Circle Historic District</a>, University of Mississippi. </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ammadelle" title="Ammadelle">Ammadelle</a> (Pegues House), designed by <a href="/wiki/Calvert_Vaux" title="Calvert Vaux">Calvert Vaux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barnard_Observatory" title="Barnard Observatory">Barnard Observatory</a> (<a href="/wiki/Center_for_the_Study_of_Southern_Culture" title="Center for the Study of Southern Culture">Center for the Study of Southern Culture</a>), University of Mississippi, 1859</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isom_Place" title="Isom Place">Isom Place</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1843</span>, remodeled 1848</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lafayette_County_Courthouse_(Mississippi)" title="Lafayette County Courthouse (Mississippi)">Lafayette County Courthouse</a>, 1872, designed by Willis, Sloan, and Trigg</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucius_Q._C._Lamar_House" title="Lucius Q. C. Lamar House">Lucius Q. C. Lamar House</a>, ca. 1860<figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:James_Meredith_Statue.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/James_Meredith_Statue.jpg/170px-James_Meredith_Statue.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/James_Meredith_Statue.jpg/255px-James_Meredith_Statue.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/James_Meredith_Statue.jpg/340px-James_Meredith_Statue.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3024" data-file-height="4032" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/James_Meredith" title="James Meredith">James Meredith</a> Statue</figcaption></figure></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyceum-The_Circle_Historic_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyceum-The Circle Historic District">The Lyceum</a>, University of Mississippi, 1848, designed by <a href="/wiki/William_Nichols_(architect)" title="William Nichols (architect)">William Nichols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rowan_Oak" title="Rowan Oak">Rowan Oak</a> (William Faulkner House), 1848</li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Episcopal_Church_(Oxford,_Mississippi)" title="St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Oxford, Mississippi)">St. Peter's Episcopal Church</a>, 1860, attributed to <a href="/wiki/Richard_Upjohn" title="Richard Upjohn">Richard Upjohn</a> (Neo-Gothic)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Mississippi_Power_House" title="University of Mississippi Power House">University of Mississippi Power House</a>, site of William Faulkner's 1930 novel <i><a href="/wiki/As_I_Lay_Dying" title="As I Lay Dying">As I Lay Dying</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyceum-The_Circle_Historic_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyceum-The Circle Historic District">Ventress Hall</a>, University of Mississippi, 1889 (Richardson Romanesque)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lyceumfromlibrary.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Lyceumfromlibrary.JPG/220px-Lyceumfromlibrary.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Lyceumfromlibrary.JPG/330px-Lyceumfromlibrary.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Lyceumfromlibrary.JPG/440px-Lyceumfromlibrary.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1980" data-file-height="1430" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Lyceum_(Mississippi)" title="Lyceum (Mississippi)">Lyceum</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Mississippi" title="University of Mississippi">University of Mississippi</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The city is served by two public school districts, <a href="/wiki/Oxford_School_District" title="Oxford School District">Oxford School District</a> (with the majority of the area) and <a href="/wiki/Lafayette_County_School_District_(Mississippi)" title="Lafayette County School District (Mississippi)">Lafayette County School District</a> (with small outerlying sections).<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The former operates <a href="/wiki/Oxford_High_School_(Mississippi)" title="Oxford High School (Mississippi)">Oxford High School</a>. </p><p>It is also served by three private schools: Oxford University School, Regents School of Oxford<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Magnolia Montessori. Oxford is partially the home of the main campus of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Mississippi" title="University of Mississippi">University of Mississippi</a>, known as "Ole Miss" (much of the campus is in <a href="/wiki/University,_Mississippi" title="University, Mississippi">University, Mississippi</a>, an unincorporated enclave surrounded by the city),<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and of the Lafayette-Yalobusha Center of <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Mississippi_Community_College" title="Northwest Mississippi Community College">Northwest Mississippi Community College</a>. The North Mississippi Japanese Supplementary School, a <a href="/wiki/Hoshuko" class="mw-redirect" title="Hoshuko">Japanese weekend school</a>, is operated in conjunction with the University of Mississippi, with classes held on campus.<sup id="cite_ref-HoshukoEN_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HoshukoEN-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Oxford Eagle</i>, founded 1865<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Mississippian" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily Mississippian">The Daily Mississippian</a></i>, the student newspaper of the University of Mississippi, founded 1911</li> <li><i>The Local Voice</i>, a bimonthly entertainment guide and newspaper<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/WUMS" title="WUMS">WUMS</a>,</i> the student radio station of the University of Mississippi</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Infrastructure">Infrastructure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Infrastructure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Health_care">Health care</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Health care"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Baptist Memorial Hospital - North Mississippi, located in Oxford provides comprehensive health care services for Oxford and the surrounding area, supported by a growing number of physicians, clinics and support facilities. The North Mississippi Regional Center, a state-licensed Intermediate Care Facility for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IID), is located in Oxford. </p><p>Oxford is home to the National Center for Natural Products Research at the University of Mississippi's School of Pharmacy. The Center is the only facility in the United States that is federally licensed to cultivate <a href="/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)" title="Cannabis (drug)">marijuana</a> for scientific research, and to distribute it to <a href="/wiki/Medical_marijuana" class="mw-redirect" title="Medical marijuana">medical marijuana</a> patients. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transportation">Transportation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The city operates public transportation under the name Oxford-University Transit (OUT), with bus routes throughout the city and University of Mississippi campus.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ole Miss students and faculty ride free upon showing University identification. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Central_Railroad_(present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mississippi Central Railroad (present)">Mississippi Central Railroad</a> provides freight rail service to the Lafayette County Industrial Park in Oxford. </p><p><a href="/wiki/University-Oxford_Airport" title="University-Oxford Airport">University-Oxford Airport</a> is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northwest of the central business district of Oxford. The airport is owned by the University of Mississippi. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Oxford,_Mississippi" title="List of people from Oxford, Mississippi">List of people from Oxford, Mississippi</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Carl_Van_Vechten_-_William_Faulkner.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Carl_Van_Vechten_-_William_Faulkner.jpg/110px-Carl_Van_Vechten_-_William_Faulkner.jpg" decoding="async" width="110" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Carl_Van_Vechten_-_William_Faulkner.jpg/165px-Carl_Van_Vechten_-_William_Faulkner.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Carl_Van_Vechten_-_William_Faulkner.jpg/220px-Carl_Van_Vechten_-_William_Faulkner.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2507" data-file-height="3526" /></a><figcaption>Oxford native <a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a> in 1954</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">William Faulkner</a> grew up in Oxford and used it as the fictional city of "Jefferson".</li> <li>Authors include <a href="/wiki/John_Grisham" title="John Grisham">John Grisham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Julie_Cantrell" title="Julie Cantrell">Julie Cantrell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kiese_Laymon" title="Kiese Laymon">Kiese Laymon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Curtis_Wilkie" title="Curtis Wilkie">Curtis Wilkie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ace_Atkins" title="Ace Atkins">Ace Atkins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aimee_Nezhukumatathil" title="Aimee Nezhukumatathil">Aimee Nezhukumatathil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chris_Offutt" title="Chris Offutt">Chris Offutt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Howard_Bahr" title="Howard Bahr">Howard Bahr</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Ford" title="Richard Ford">Richard Ford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Franklin_(author)" title="Tom Franklin (author)">Tom Franklin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beth_Ann_Fennelly" title="Beth Ann Fennelly">Beth Ann Fennelly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ann_Fisher-Wirth" title="Ann Fisher-Wirth">Ann Fisher-Wirth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wright_Thompson" title="Wright Thompson">Wright Thompson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stark_Young" title="Stark Young">Stark Young</a>, <a href="/wiki/Larry_Brown_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Larry Brown (author)">Larry Brown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Willie_Morris" title="Willie Morris">Willie Morris</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Barry_Hannah" title="Barry Hannah">Barry Hannah</a>.</li> <li>Artists include <a href="/wiki/Photorealism" title="Photorealism">photorealist</a> painter <a href="/wiki/Glennray_Tutor" title="Glennray Tutor">Glennray Tutor</a>, figurative painter <a href="/wiki/Jere_Allen" title="Jere Allen">Jere Allen</a>, and primitive artist <a href="/wiki/Theora_Hamblett" title="Theora Hamblett">Theora Hamblett</a> (1895–1977).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Interior" title="United States Secretary of the Interior">Secretary of the Interior</a> <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Thompson" title="Jacob Thompson">Jacob Thompson</a> (1810–1885) owned a manor called "Home Place" in Oxford that was burned during the Civil War by Union troops. A historical marker stands where it once stood.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucius_Quintus_Cincinnatus_Lamar_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II">L.Q.C. Lamar</a> (1825–1893), U.S. senator and supreme court justice, resided in Oxford, where he served as professor of mathematics at the University of Mississippi, farmed, and practiced law. He was the son-in-law of university chancellor <a href="/wiki/Augustus_Baldwin_Longstreet" title="Augustus Baldwin Longstreet">Augustus Baldwin Longstreet</a>. Lamar's home in Oxford was restored as a museum in 2008.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angela_McGlowan" title="Angela McGlowan">Angela McGlowan</a> (born 1970), Republican political commentator, author, and consulting firm CEO</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naomi_Sims" title="Naomi Sims">Naomi Sims</a> (1948–2009), fashion model, was born in Oxford.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants" title="New York Giants">New York Giants</a> quarterback <a href="/wiki/Eli_Manning" title="Eli Manning">Eli Manning</a>, who played college football at <a href="/wiki/Ole_Miss_Rebels_football" title="Ole Miss Rebels football">Ole Miss</a>, lives in Oxford during the off-season. His father, former Ole Miss and <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Saints" title="New Orleans Saints">New Orleans Saints</a> quarterback <a href="/wiki/Archie_Manning" title="Archie Manning">Archie Manning</a>, owns a condominium in Oxford.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sister_city">Sister city</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oxford,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Sister city"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, 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href="/wiki/Starkville,_Mississippi" title="Starkville, Mississippi">Starkville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tunica,_Mississippi" title="Tunica, Mississippi">Tunica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tupelo,_Mississippi" title="Tupelo, Mississippi">Tupelo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vicksburg,_Mississippi" title="Vicksburg, Mississippi">Vicksburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waveland,_Mississippi" title="Waveland, Mississippi">Waveland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Hattiesburg,_Mississippi" title="West Hattiesburg, Mississippi">West Hattiesburg (Oak Grove)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Point,_Mississippi" title="West Point, Mississippi">West Point</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yazoo_City,_Mississippi" title="Yazoo City, Mississippi">Yazoo City</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Mississippi" title="List of counties in Mississippi">Counties</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd 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Mississippi">Pontotoc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prentiss_County,_Mississippi" title="Prentiss County, Mississippi">Prentiss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quitman_County,_Mississippi" title="Quitman County, Mississippi">Quitman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rankin_County,_Mississippi" title="Rankin County, Mississippi">Rankin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_County,_Mississippi" title="Scott County, Mississippi">Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharkey_County,_Mississippi" title="Sharkey County, Mississippi">Sharkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simpson_County,_Mississippi" title="Simpson County, Mississippi">Simpson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smith_County,_Mississippi" title="Smith County, Mississippi">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stone_County,_Mississippi" title="Stone County, Mississippi">Stone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunflower_County,_Mississippi" title="Sunflower County, Mississippi">Sunflower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tallahatchie_County,_Mississippi" title="Tallahatchie County, Mississippi">Tallahatchie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tate_County,_Mississippi" title="Tate County, Mississippi">Tate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tippah_County,_Mississippi" title="Tippah County, Mississippi">Tippah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tishomingo_County,_Mississippi" title="Tishomingo County, Mississippi">Tishomingo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tunica_County,_Mississippi" title="Tunica County, Mississippi">Tunica</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_County,_Mississippi" title="Union County, Mississippi">Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walthall_County,_Mississippi" title="Walthall County, Mississippi">Walthall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren_County,_Mississippi" title="Warren County, Mississippi">Warren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_County,_Mississippi" title="Washington County, Mississippi">Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayne_County,_Mississippi" title="Wayne County, Mississippi">Wayne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Webster_County,_Mississippi" title="Webster County, Mississippi">Webster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilkinson_County,_Mississippi" title="Wilkinson County, Mississippi">Wilkinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winston_County,_Mississippi" title="Winston County, Mississippi">Winston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yalobusha_County,_Mississippi" title="Yalobusha County, Mississippi">Yalobusha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yazoo_County,_Mississippi" title="Yazoo County, Mississippi">Yazoo</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><b><span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Flag_of_Mississippi.svg/32px-Flag_of_Mississippi.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Flag_of_Mississippi.svg/48px-Flag_of_Mississippi.svg.png 1.5x, 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Mississippi">Aberdeen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ackerman,_Mississippi" title="Ackerman, Mississippi">Ackerman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashland,_Mississippi" title="Ashland, Mississippi">Ashland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Batesville,_Mississippi" title="Batesville, Mississippi">Batesville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bay_Springs,_Mississippi" title="Bay Springs, Mississippi">Bay Springs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bay_St._Louis,_Mississippi" title="Bay St. Louis, Mississippi">Bay St. Louis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belzoni,_Mississippi" title="Belzoni, Mississippi">Belzoni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biloxi,_Mississippi" title="Biloxi, Mississippi">Biloxi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Booneville,_Mississippi" title="Booneville, Mississippi">Booneville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brandon,_Mississippi" title="Brandon, Mississippi">Brandon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brookhaven,_Mississippi" title="Brookhaven, Mississippi">Brookhaven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canton,_Mississippi" title="Canton, Mississippi">Canton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carrollton,_Mississippi" title="Carrollton, Mississippi">Carrollton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carthage,_Mississippi" title="Carthage, Mississippi">Carthage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charleston,_Mississippi" title="Charleston, Mississippi">Charleston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarksdale,_Mississippi" title="Clarksdale, Mississippi">Clarksdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleveland,_Mississippi" title="Cleveland, Mississippi">Cleveland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coffeeville,_Mississippi" title="Coffeeville, Mississippi">Coffeeville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collins,_Mississippi" title="Collins, Mississippi">Collins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columbia,_Mississippi" title="Columbia, Mississippi">Columbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columbus,_Mississippi" title="Columbus, Mississippi">Columbus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corinth,_Mississippi" title="Corinth, Mississippi">Corinth</a></li> <li><a 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<li><a href="/wiki/Liberty,_Mississippi" title="Liberty, Mississippi">Liberty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisville,_Mississippi" title="Louisville, Mississippi">Louisville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucedale,_Mississippi" title="Lucedale, Mississippi">Lucedale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macon,_Mississippi" title="Macon, Mississippi">Macon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magnolia,_Mississippi" title="Magnolia, Mississippi">Magnolia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marks,_Mississippi" title="Marks, Mississippi">Marks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayersville,_Mississippi" title="Mayersville, Mississippi">Mayersville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meadville,_Mississippi" title="Meadville, Mississippi">Meadville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mendenhall,_Mississippi" title="Mendenhall, Mississippi">Mendenhall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meridian,_Mississippi" title="Meridian, Mississippi">Meridian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monticello,_Mississippi" title="Monticello, Mississippi">Monticello</a></li> 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