Oil City

city of Pennsylvania, United States
Place city_of_pennsylvania Q1184941
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Summary

Oil City is a city of Pennsylvania[1]. It draws 2,685 Wikipedia views per month (city_of_pennsylvania category, ranking #23 of 54).[2]

Key Facts

  • Oil City is located in Venango County[3].
  • Oil City is in the country of United States[4].
  • Oil City is on the body of water Allegheny River[5].
  • Oil City is on the body of water Oil Creek[6].
  • Oil City's head of government is recorded as John Kluck[7].
  • Oil City's instance of is recorded as city of Pennsylvania[8].
  • Oil City's instance of is recorded as optional charter municipality of Pennsylvania[9].
  • oil is named after Oil City[10].
  • Oil City's postal code is recorded as 16301[11].
  • Oil City's Commons category is recorded as Oil City, Pennsylvania[12].
  • 1824 marks the founding of Oil City[13].
  • Oil City's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 41.4283, 'lon': -79.7072}[14].
  • Oil City's official website is recorded as http://www.oilcity.org/[15].
  • Oil City's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Oil City, Pennsylvania[16].
  • Oil City's described at URL is recorded as https://oilcitypa.net/[17].
  • Oil City has a population of {'amount': '+10557'}[18].
  • Oil City has a population of {'amount': '+9613'}[19].
  • Oil City's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • Oil City's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[21].
  • Oil City's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[22].
  • Oil City's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[23].
  • Oil City's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Oil City'}[24].
  • Oil City's category for people born here is recorded as Q118540000[25].
  • Oil City's number of households is recorded as {'amount': '+4228'}[26].
  • Oil City's different from is recorded as Oil City[27].

Body

Geography

Oil City is in the country of United States[4]. It is located in Venango County[3]. Adjacent water bodies include Allegheny River[5], a river[28], in United States[29] and Oil Creek[6], a river[30], in United States[31].

Physical Characteristics

Areas include {'unit': 'square mile', 'amount': '+4.84'}[32] and {'unit': 'square kilometre', 'amount': '+12.52973'}[33]. Oil City sits at an elevation of {'unit': 'foot', 'amount': '+1017'}[34]. Population counts include {'amount': '+10557'}[18] and {'amount': '+9613'}[19].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include city of Pennsylvania[8] and optional charter municipality of Pennsylvania[9].

History and Context

1824 marks the founding of Oil City[13]. oil is named after it[10].

Why It Matters

Oil City draws 2,685 Wikipedia views per month (city_of_pennsylvania category, ranking #23 of 54).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [7] ↑ . oilcity.org. Retrieved . oilcity.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [34] ↑ . Geographic Names Information System. wikidata.org.
  27. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [33] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 20d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'azb', 'ca', 'ce', 'ceb', 'dag', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fr', 'glk
    Gnd id → 5032619-3
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 21d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → oil-city
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: oil-city, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289956429|oil city (#289956429)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
  3. 9w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Water area → {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+0.894085'}
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Venango County
    Named after → —
    Official website → http://www.oilcity.org/
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/46713|batch #46713]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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