Oxford
Oxford is a historic, picturesque town in North Central Mississippi. With its scenic town square, acclaimed restaurants, unique boutiques, oak-shaded neighborhoods, and friendly people, Oxford is the model Southern town.Photo: Enjoybeta, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: City with 27,400 residents
- Description: city and county seat of Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States
- Also known as: “Oxford, Lafayette County”, “Oxford, Mississippi”, and “Oxford, MS”
- Postal code: 38655
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vaught–Hemingway Stadium and Rowan Oak.
Vaught–Hemingway Stadium
Stadium
Vaught–Hemingway Stadium is an outdoor athletic stadium located in University, Mississippi, United States. The stadium serves as the home for the University of Mississippi Rebels college football team.
Rowan Oak
Historic building
Photo: Jameslwoodward, CC BY 2.5.
Rowan Oak was the home of author William Faulkner in Oxford, Mississippi. It is a primitive Greek Revival house originally built in 1844 for Robert B Sheegog, an Irish immigrant farmer from Tennessee.
Lyric Theater
Theater building
The Lyric is a historical theater located in Oxford, Mississippi at 1006 Van Buren Avenue that hosts a wide variety of acts.
Oxford
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Lafayette County, Mississippi Hills, Mississippi, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.3664° or 34° 21′ 59″ northLongitude
-89.5188° or 89° 31′ 8″ westPopulation
27,400Elevation
505 feet (154 metres)IATA airport code
UOXUnited Nations Location Code
US UOXOpen location code
866G9F8J+HFOpenStreetMap ID
node 153639458OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4440076Wikidata ID
Q983822
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Oxford” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أكسفورد”
- Basque: “Oxford”
- Catalan: “Oxford”
- Cebuano: “Oxford”
- Chechen: “Оксфорд”
- Chinese: “Oxford”
- Chinese: “牛津”
- Czech: “Oxford”
- Dagbani: “Oxford”
- Danish: “Oxford”
- Dutch: “Oxford”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اكسفورد”
- Esperanto: “Oksfordo”
- French: “Oxford”
- German: “Oxford”
- Gilaki: “آکسفؤرد”
- Haitian: “Oxford, Mississippi”
- Haitian: “Oxford”
- Hebrew: “אוקספורד”
- Hungarian: “Oxford”
- Ido: “Oxford, Mississippi”
- Ido: “Oxford”
- Indonesian: “Oxford, Mississippi”
- Irish: “Oxford”
- Italian: “Oxford”
- Japanese: “オックスフォード”
- Kazakh: “Oksford”
- Kazakh: “Оксфорд”
- Kazakh: “وكسفورد”
- Kirghiz: “Оксфорд”
- Korean: “옥스퍼드”
- Ladin: “Oxford”
- Malagasy: “Oxford, Mississippi”
- Malagasy: “Oxford”
- Mazanderani: “آکسفورد”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Oxford”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oxford”
- Norwegian: “Oxford”
- Persian: “آکسفورد، میسیسیپی”
- Persian: “آکسفورد”
- Polish: “Oxford”
- Portuguese: “Oxford”
- Russian: “Оксфорд”
- Serbian: “Оксфорд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oxford, Mississippi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oxford”
- Silesian: “Oxford”
- Slovak: “Oxford”
- South Azerbaijani: “آکسفورد، میسیسیپی”
- Spanish: “Oxford (Misisipi)”
- Spanish: “Oxford”
- Swahili: “Oxford, Mississippi”
- Swahili: “Oxford”
- Swedish: “Oxford, Mississippi”
- Swedish: “Oxford”
- Tatar: “Оксфорд (Миссисипи)”
- Tatar: “Оксфорд”
- Turkish: “Oxford, Mississippi”
- Turkish: “Oxford”
- Ukrainian: “Оксфорд”
- Urdu: “آکسفورڈ، مسیسپی”
- Urdu: “آکسفورڈ”
- Uzbek: “Oxford”
- Uzbek: “Охфорд”
- Vietnamese: “Oxford, Mississippi”
- Vietnamese: “Oxford”
- Volapük: “Oxford”
- Waray (Philippines): “Oxford, Mississippi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Oxford”
- Welsh: “Oxford, Mississippi”
- Welsh: “Oxford”
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