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Oil City, PA -- U.S. city in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 11504
Housing Units (2000): 5276
Land area (2000): 4.514123 sq. miles (11.691525 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.216346 sq. miles (0.560333 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.730469 sq. miles (12.251858 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56456
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 41.428280 N, 79.707327 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 16301
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Oil City, LA -- U.S. town in Louisiana
Population (2000): 1219
Housing Units (2000): 542
Land area (2000): 1.792960 sq. miles (4.643745 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.063535 sq. miles (0.164554 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.856495 sq. miles (4.808299 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57590
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 32.742170 N, 93.974376 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 71061
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Oil City

Oil City may refer to:

in the United States
  • Casper, Wyoming, nicknamed "The Oil City"
  • Oil City, California, community in Kern County, California
  • Oil City, Kentucky, community in Barren County, Kentucky
  • Oil City, Louisiana, town in Caddo Parish, Louisiana
  • Oil City, Maryland, small community in Caroline County, Maryland
  • Oil City, Michigan, small community in Midland County, Michigan
  • Oil City, Missouri, community in Chariton County, Missouri
  • Oil City, Mississippi, community in Yazoo County, Mississippi
  • Oil City, Oklahoma, small community in Carter County, Oklahoma
  • Oil City, Stephens County, Oklahoma, community in Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • Oil City, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, small community in Cambria County, Pennsylvania
  • Oil City, Pennsylvania, city in Venango County, Pennsylvania
  • Oil City, Texas, community in Hutchinson County, Texas
  • Oil City, Washington, community in Jefferson County, Washington
  • Oil City, Wisconsin, small community in Monroe County, Wisconsin
in Canada
  • Oil City, Ontario

Usage examples of "oil city".

By March 27, the Hammurabi had arrived at the great oil city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq and led an assault that recaptured the city for the regime in about thirty-six hours of fighting.

Tomorrow Alim might regret letting them use gas for a fire, but shit, they'd probably run out of road before the truck they'd ripped off in Oil City ran out of gas.

In three months, as John McPhee notes in In Suspect Terrain, the endearingly named Pithole City went from a population of zero to 15,000, and other towns throughout the region sprang up--Oil City, Petroleum Center, Red Hot.

My name is Robert Dennis Clary and I was born twenty-three years ago in Oil City, Pennsylvania, which is also where I was raised.