Welcome to Oil City ...

Oil City is located in Monroe County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Oil City, you might consider that their post office opened in 1873.

Oil City is 880 feet [268 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Oil City lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Oil City: 608 & 353<3>

Communities Also Named Oil City ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 18 communities that are also named Oil City - they are located in Alberta, California, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma (2), Ontario, Pennsylvania (2), Texas, Washington and Wyoming.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Oil City.

Communities near Oil City ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Oil City.

• Sparta
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Sparta is located in Monroe County
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  • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,800 people
• Tomah
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Tomah is located in Monroe County
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  • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,363 people
• Westby
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Westby is located in Vernon County
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  • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,254 people
• Hillsboro
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Hillsboro is located in Vernon County
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  • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,387 people
• Elroy
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Elroy is located in Juneau County
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  • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,306 people
• Cashton
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Cashton is located in Monroe County
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  • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,111 people
• Wonewoc
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Wonewoc is located in Juneau County
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  • Population from the 2020 Census: 789 people
• La Farge
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • La Farge is located in Vernon County
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  • Population from the 2020 Census: 763 people
• Rockland
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Rockland is located in La Crosse County
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  • Population from the 2020 Census: 710 people
• Viola
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • Viola is located in Richland County
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  • Population from the 2020 Census: 665 people

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 Oil City. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Oil City.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Oil City. 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 Oil City.

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

Adding Oil City to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Oil City 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 (so far) for Oil City was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Oil City post office opened in 1873. The Oil City post office closed in 1902.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Oil City.