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oakley

n. 1 Any of several place names in England and the United States 2 (surname from=Old English dot=) derived from the place names in England.

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Oakley, WY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Wyoming
Population (2000): 18
Housing Units (2000): 10
Land area (2000): 0.058437 sq. miles (0.151350 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.058437 sq. miles (0.151350 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57375
Located within: Wyoming (WY), FIPS 56
Location: 41.753253 N, 110.527918 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Oakley, CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 25619
Housing Units (2000): 7946
Land area (2000): 12.417336 sq. miles (32.160750 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.101137 sq. miles (0.261944 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 12.518473 sq. miles (32.422694 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53070
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 37.993474 N, 121.718340 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 94561
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Oakley, ID -- U.S. city in Idaho
Population (2000): 668
Housing Units (2000): 257
Land area (2000): 3.990406 sq. miles (10.335104 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.990406 sq. miles (10.335104 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58330
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 42.242360 N, 113.880904 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 83346
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Headwords:
Oakley, ID
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Oakley, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 2173
Housing Units (2000): 1009
Land area (2000): 1.889748 sq. miles (4.894424 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.889748 sq. miles (4.894424 sq. km)
FIPS code: 51825
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.128023 N, 100.854490 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67748
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Oakley, UT -- U.S. city in Utah
Population (2000): 948
Housing Units (2000): 330
Land area (2000): 6.297288 sq. miles (16.309901 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000655 sq. miles (0.001696 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.297943 sq. miles (16.311597 sq. km)
FIPS code: 55650
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 40.718595 N, 111.287863 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
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Oakley, MI -- U.S. village in Michigan
Population (2000): 339
Housing Units (2000): 146
Land area (2000): 1.019687 sq. miles (2.640978 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.019687 sq. miles (2.640978 sq. km)
FIPS code: 59860
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 43.141312 N, 84.168988 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 48649
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Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Oakley

Oakley may refer to:

  • Oakley, Inc., an eyewear manufacturer
  • Baron Oakley, a hereditary title
Oakley (surname)

Oakley is a surname of English origin, and may refer to:

Oakley (Spotsylvania County, Virginia)

Oakley is a historic plantation and home located in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, Virginia. The Federal/ Georgian style, 2 1/2 -story home was built in 1828 by Samuel Alsop, Jr. as a wedding present for his daughter, Clementina. Alsop built several notable houses in Spotsylvania County including Kenmore, Spotswood Inn, and Fairview.

Oakley was part of a grant of given to Gawain Corbin by the King of England. Alsop bought in 1816. The Georgian home was built using bricks made in two kilns that Alsop built on the property.

Oakley is located near the site of many major battles of the American Civil War. A number of battles and skirmishes occurred on or near the property. According to a letter written by a resident of the house at the time, during one two-day period, the house was ransacked by "...at least 2000 soldiers tramping through the house." A Yankee soldier disobeyed his Major's orders to burn the house down.

During the latter half of the 19th century, the house was neglected and used more as a barn than a home. In 1919, the property was purchased by a Mr. McHenry who wanted to mine for silver and gold. The mining project failed and, in 1926, the plantation was sold to George C. Beals. The property has been owned by the Beals since then. Running water and electricity were added in the 1940s and central heating in the 1960s.

As of 2005, the Oakley farm consisted of nearly . Oakley was added to the National Register of Historic Places in May 2002.

Oakley (Gallatin, Tennessee)

Oakley, also been known as the Dr. John W. Franklin House, is a historic house near Gallatin, Tennessee, overlooking Old Hickory Lake. It was built in 1852 to a design by architect William Strickland. Oakley was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The listing included two contributing buildings and a contributing structure on .

The property is privately owned. It has served as the home and studio of local artist Frank Gee.

Oakley (Upperville, Virginia)

Oakley is a historic home and farm located near Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia.

Oakley (Heathsville, Virginia)

Oakley is a historic plantation house located at Heathsville, Northumberland County, Virginia. It was built about 1820, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, Federal style frame dwelling. It is topped by a gabled standing seam metal roof. A frame two-story ell was added in 1898 and a one-story, glass-enclosed porch in 1978. The front facade features a one-story, tetrastyle porch. Also on the property are the contributing massive frame barn and 19th century frame shed. It is located in the Heathsville Historic District. The house was owned for a time by C. Harding Walker, a notable state politician, and his family.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Usage examples of "oakley".

Oakley found the Castenedolo bones had a nitrogen content similar to that of bones from Late Pleistocene and Holocene Italian sites and thus concluded the Castenedolo bones were recent.

Oakley had indicated that at least three of the cosmonauts were still alive.

Isadora Duncan is the same as the joke about the aardvark and Annie Oakley, except that Annie is firing a Sharps repeating carbine.

Darryl indossava la consueta tenuta da spacciatore di droga: braghe corte di nylon color cremisi su pantaloni aderenti di nylon blu, maglietta polo, giacca a vento Tommy Hilfinger, occhiali da sole Oakley.

There was Cheyenne and Sea Hunt, Your Hit Parade and Annie Oakley.

At the same time, almost against the will of the writer, another picture was emerging, a kind of Annie Oakley old-timey story of survival.

Susannah had also helped herself to one of the Cobras, after twirling it around her finger a time or two, like Annie Oakley.

They had mercilessly called her Annie Oakley since the first time she won the competition.

A Jamaican woman in an Annie Oakley buckskin dress shrieked, fired a six-gun cap pistol.

The Oakleys had come off, and he found himself staring into that face he knew so well, with the blond-white hair, gray eyes, finely chiseled features, skin as pale and translucent as Carrara marble.

The Duke, because he had been so very much longer without treatment than Smithy, Oakley, or Gerran, had gone very very close to the edge indeed, to the extent that I had on one occasion almost given up his case as being intractably hopeless, but the Duke was a great deal more stubborn than I was and that skeletal frame harboured an iron constitution : even so, without almost continuous artificial respiration, a heart stimulant injection and the copious use of oxygen, he would surely have died: now he would as surely live.

As the Camaro hurtled toward Lake Stevens, Oakley asked her if she wanted some cocaine.

She'd swaggered through the streets of Moscow during the last days of the Cold War like Annie Fucking Oakley packing heat, and though she'd been burned by KGB's Second Chief Directorate, she hadn't given the fuckers anything, and whatever operation she'd run&mdash.

She'd swaggered through the streets of Moscow during the last days of the Cold War like Annie Fucking Oakley packing heat, and though she'd been burned by KGB's Second Chief Directorate, she hadn't given the fuckers anything, and whatever operation she'd run--- this was still very, very secret--- it must have been a son of a bitch, because she'd never gone back in the field but had scampered up the CIA career ladder like a hungry squirrel up an oak tree.

She'd swaggered through the streets of Moscow during the last days of the Cold War like Annie Fucking Oakley packing heat, and though she'd been burned by KGB's Second Chief Directorate, she hadn't given the fuckers anything, and whatever operation she'd run -- this was still very, very secret -- it must have been a son of a bitch, because she'd never gone back in the field but had scampered up the CIA career ladder like a hungry squirrel up an oak tree.