Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 41.8 square miles (108.4 km²), of which, 38.7 square miles (100.3 km²) of it is land and 3.1 square miles (8.1 km²) of it (7.50%) is water. Oxford is drained by the Little Androscoggin River. Thompson Lake, the community's largest, is about 8 miles (13 km) long.
The town is crossed by state routes 26 and 121. It borders the towns of Paris to the north, Hebron to the northeast, Norway to the northwest, Poland to the southeast, and Otisfield to the southwest.
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