Oil City Pennsylvania Map

About Oil City, Pennsylvania

Oil City is a locality in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. Oil City is located at 40.4023°N, 78.6400°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 16301.

Oil City lies in a valley carved deep by the Allegheny River, its slopes a verdant sprawl of hardwood and hemlock that hums with the ceaseless industry of cicadas on a humid summer afternoon. It lies 15.2 miles west-south-west of Altoona, PA (from Altoona, PA: bearing 238°T), and is situated 7.2 miles south-east of Ebensburg. The land rises sharply here, a rugged embrace of Pennsylvania's Appalachian foothills, where the sky often feels like a vast, bruised watercolor at dusk, bleeding indigo and ochre over the clustered rooftops. Streets wind and climb, following the contours of the terrain, a reminder that this place was shaped not by a surveyor's grid but by the insistent flow of water and the stubborn root systems of ancient trees. The very name of Oil City whispers of a boom and bust, of fortunes made and lost in the black gold that once flowed from beneath this very soil. The legacy of the oil industry still clings to the brick facades of older buildings, a phantom scent of petroleum mingling with the damp earth after a rain. While the wells have long since gone dry, the spirit of enterprise endures, now channeled into manufacturing and a quiet resilience that echoes the clang of hammers on steel. Along the riverbanks, where barges once nudged against weathered docks, a more gentle rhythm prevails, the water a constant, murmuring presence in the life of Oil City, carrying the stories of generations downstream.

About This Oil City Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Oil City, Pennsylvania — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 40.402295, -78.640018. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Oil City and Cambria County.

Detailed location data for Oil City includes the ZIP code (15938), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Cambria County (Ebensburg), and school district assignment (Oil City Area School District). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any US city or town.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Oil City is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.