Oil City
a city in Venango co., Pa.; at the junction of Oil creek and the Allegheny river and on the Erie, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and Pennsylvania railroads; about 70 miles N. of Pittsburgh. It received its name from the extensive petroleum oil wells and oil industries located here. The city has a public hospital, public library, electric street railroads, electric lights, high school, daily daily and weekly newspapers, and National, State, and private banks. Besides large oil refineries, it has pipe works, iron foundries, engine and boiler works, wagon works, etc. Pop. (1910) 15,657; (1920) 21,274.