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.

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

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

Further reading

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

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