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1924 Map of Oil City

Name: 1924 Topographic Map of Oil City
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1938
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1938

About this map

Oil City serves as the industrial and logistical anchor of this region, situated at the sharp bend where the Allegheny River meets Cherry Creek. The landscape of the 1920s is defined by the legacy of the Pennsylvania oil boom, visible in the dense network of small settlements and worker-centric infrastructure like Rynd Farm, Rouseville, and the Clapp Lease. Transportation is dominated by the Pennsylvania RR and the Electric RR, which connected these valley communities during a period of intense extraction and refining.

Away from the riverbanks, the terrain transitions into a patchwork of rural school districts and family-named corners such as Sadlers Corner and McPhersons Corner. Numerous country schools like the Foster Hill School and McCalmont School dot the townships of Cornplanter and Cranberry, reflecting a well-distributed population before the consolidation of the mid-20th century. The presence of Monarch Park and Rose Gardens indicates the social and recreational side of this industrial era.