Fox is an unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon, United States, on U.S. Route 395 south of Long Creek.
Fox is named after Fox Creek, a tributary of the North Fork John Day River. [1] The creek was named for an incident involving a fox that occurred during a hunting or prospecting trip in pioneer times. [1] Fox post office was established circa 1883 [1] discontinued in 2002, and formerly had a ZIP code of 97831. [2] Fox is now served by the Long Creek post office (ZIP code 97845). [3]
Fox was the birthplace of noted artist Morris Graves. [4]
This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Fox has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps. [5]
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