Oil City, Wisconsin

Oil City, Wisconsin
—  Unincorporated community  —
Oil City today
Oil City, Wisconsin
Coordinates: 43°45′02″N 90°35′12″W / 43.75056°N 90.58667°W / 43.75056; -90.58667
Country	United States
State	Wisconsin
County	Monroe
Elevation	886 ft (270 m)
Time zone	Central (CST) (UTC-6)
– Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
Area code(s)	608
GNIS feature ID	1570758[1]

Oil City is an unincorporated community in the Town of Sheldon in Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States. It was the site of a nineteenth century oil swindle. It is located about halfway between Wilton and Ontario on WI-131.

A cemetery in the area, known either as the Sheldon Township Cemetery or the Oil City Cemetery, was used from the 1860s to the early 1900s. It was plowed over by a local farmer in the 1940s; while the cemetery has since been restored, many of the original headstones are now gone.^[2]

Notes

1. ^ "Oil City". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1570758. 
2. ^ Sheldon - Cemetery Index, Monroe County, Wisconsin WI

Coordinates: 43°45′02″N 90°35′12″W / 43.7506°N 90.5867°W / 43.7506; -90.5867