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]