Mayor Sonja L. Hawkins welcomes you to the City of Oil City's web site. We hope you enjoy your visit and will return often. Be sure to click on the "Mayor's Welcome" link at the right and read the Mayor's welcoming remarks.

Oil City, Pennsylvania is located in Venango County at the confluence of the Allegheny River and Oil Creek in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains.

It is a quiet, friendly community with a history dating back to the discovery of oil near Titusville, Pa. We are the "Valley that changed the world".