Geography
Oeschgen has an area, as of 2009, of 4.38 square kilometers (1.69 sq mi). Of this area, 2.95 km2 (1.14 sq mi) or 67.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.8 km2 (0.31 sq mi) or 18.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.62 km2 (0.24 sq mi) or 14.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.03 km2 (7.4 acres) or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01 km2 (2.5 acres) or 0.2% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 6.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.8%. Out of the forested land, 17.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 37.7% is used for growing crops and 25.6% is pastures, while 4.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.
The municipality is located in the Laufenburg district, in the upper Fricktal (Frick river valley). It lies along the Sisselnbach and on the A3 motorway. It consists of the haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Oeschgen.
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