Oakland is an

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Colorado County Colorado County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 20,557. Its county seat is Columbus. It is named for the Colorado River of Texas. The county was founded in 1836 and organized the next y ...

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, United States. According to the

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, the community had an estimated population of 80 in 2000. It is located southwest of

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

on Farm to Market Road 532 (FM 532) near its junction with Farm to Market Road 2144 (FM 2144). Oakland has a post office with the ZIP code 78951. Public education in the community is provided by the

Weimar Independent School District Weimar Independent School District is a public school district based in Weimar, Texas (USA). Located in Colorado County, the district extends into small portions of Fayette and Lavaca counties. The district serves the unincorporated area of Bo ...

Geography

According to the

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(GNIS), Oakland is situated at . The community is located southwest of

via FM 532 and

Farm to Market Road 155 A farm (also called an agricultural holding) is an area of land that is devoted primarily to agricultural processes with the primary objective of producing food and other crops; it is the basic facility in food production. The name is used fo ...

(FM 155). The intersection of FM 532 with FM 2144 is a short distance to the northeast of Oakland. By using FM 2144, which connects with FM 155, the distance to Weimar is a slightly longer . The

Navidad River The Navidad River is a -long coastal river in the U.S. state of Texas that runs roughly parallel to its sister river, the Lavaca River. It is not spring fed, and all of its volume is runoff, which eventually provides for much of the water in Lake ...

flows south on the west side of Oakland. Its two branches, the East and West Navidad Rivers join a short distance to the northwest of the community.

References

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