The Oxbow
The Oxbow is a nature reserve in Dearborn, Indiana. The Oxbow is situated nearby to the neighborhood Hardinsburg, as well as near Homestead.Places of Interest
Highlights include Carroll Lee Cropper Bridge and Lawrenceburg High School.
Carroll Lee Cropper Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Carroll Lee Cropper Bridge is a continuous steel arch-shaped truss bridge over the Ohio River between Indiana and Kentucky. Built between 1968 and 1977, the four-lane arched truss span provides a western Ohio River crossing for the Interstate 275 beltway around the Cincinnati area.
Lawrenceburg High School
School
Lawrenceburg High School is a high school located in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The current building was built in 1937. In 1964 the new gym was built to bring the sectionals back to Lawrenceburg.
Miami Fort Power Station
Power station
Photo: FunksBrother, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Miami Fort Generating Station is a dual-fuel power generating facility. It is a major coal-fired electrical power station, supplemented with a small oil-fired facility.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lawrenceburg and Petersburg.
Lawrenceburg
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Lawrenceburg is in Southern Indiana and was founded in 1802 as a center around riverboat commerce on the Ohio River.
Petersburg
Hamlet
Petersburg is a rural unincorporated community and census-designated place in Boone County, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2020 census Petersburg, along with its surrounding areas that use the 41080 zip code, had a population of 500.
Elizabethtown
Hamlet
Elizabethtown is a census-designated place in Whitewater Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 323 at the 2020 census.
The Oxbow
- Type: Nature reserve
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Dearborn, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.1141° or 39° 6′ 51″ northLongitude
-84.8422° or 84° 50′ 32″ westOpen location code
86FQ4575+J4OpenStreetMap ID
node 4314613429OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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