Oil City, Wisconsin

43°45′02″N 90°35′12″W / 43.75056°N 90.58667°W / 43.75056; -90.58667Country United StatesState WisconsinCountyMonroeElevation270 m (886 ft)Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)Area code608GNIS feature ID1570758^[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]

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Further reading

• Stark, William F. (1977). "Oil City". Ghost Towns of Wisconsin. Sheboygan: Zimmermann Press. pp. 29–35. OCLC 3564408.

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