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Oasis is a census-designated place in northeastern Millard County, Utah, United States. The population was 75 at the 2010 census. Once the main rail shipping point in Millard County, Oasis declined in importance after the introduction of Delta, now the county’s largest city.

The Utah Southern Railroad Extension reached the Oasis area in October 1879,:163 and by 1880 a agreement had begun to develop.:184 Originally named Deseret Station,:170 it became known as Oasis by 1885. In the into the future years, a little dam close Deseret provided whatever the irrigation water. Then in 1886, the Oasis and Riverside Canal Company and the Gunnison Bend Canal Company were organized, with ambitious plans to fee the crop growing of the surrounding land. The canal projects took years longer than expected,:162 but supported steady population growth.

In the meantime, Oasis’s main economic protest was as a railroad station. The artificial metal mines of Frisco and Joy provided substantial freight traffic to the shipping dwindling at Oasis.:164 The station served communities as inattentive as Baker, Nevada, 100 miles (160 km) away.:167 It afterward made an handsome location for shearing sheep, shipping livestock, and outfitting ranches.:176–177 A little commercial center began to develop, with a general store, hotel, restaurant, saloon, bank, and other small businesses.:184