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Welcome to Oley Furnace ...

Oley Furnace is located in Berks County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Oley Furnace, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1828.

Oley Furnace is 560 feet [171 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Oley Furnace lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities near Oley Furnace ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Oley Furnace.

  • Reading
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Pottstown
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Emmaus
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Wyomissing
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wyomissing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyomissing
    • Wyomissing is located in Berks County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,605 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wyomissing <3>
  • Shillington
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Birdsboro
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Kutztown
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Hamburg
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • West Reading
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Sinking Spring
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Oley Furnace. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Oley Furnace.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Oley Furnace. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Oley Furnace.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Oley Furnace. See our Newspapers Page for Oley Furnace.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Oley Furnace ...

Looking for more information about Oley Furnace? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Oley Furnace, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Oley Furnace.

Adding Oley Furnace to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Oley Furnace in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Oley Furnace was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Oley Furnace post office opened in 1828.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Oley Furnace.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties, including Berks, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Oley Furnace - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/