Place:Oil City, Monroe, Wisconsin, United States

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NameOil City
TypeCommunity
Coordinates43.75°N 90.583°W
Located inMonroe, Wisconsin, United States
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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.

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