Oak Springs is a

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(CDP) in

Apache County Apache County is in the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. Shaped in a long rectangle running north to south, as of the 2020 census, its population was 66,021. The county seat is St. Johns. Most of the county is occupied by part ...

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, United States. The population was 63 at the 2010 census.

Geography

Oak Springs is located along Indian Route 12, about north of

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and south of St. Michaels. According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of , all land.

Demographics

Education

Oak Springs is within the

Window Rock Unified School District Window Rock Unified School District (WRUSD) is a school district within Apache County, Arizona, United States. The district comprises seven schools within a 65-mile radius. WRUSD serves several unincorporated areas, including Fort Defiance, Oak ...

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Window Rock High School Window Rock High School is a public high school in Fort Defiance, a census-designated place in unincorporated Apache County, Arizona. WRHS is the only high school in the Window Rock Unified School District. WRUSD, and therefore the high school, ...

is the local high school. Two nearby

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(BIE)-operated schools take students from Oak Springs: Cove Day School and Red Rock Day School.

References

{{authority control Census-designated places in Apache County, Arizona Census-designated places in Arizona Populated places on the Navajo Nation