• Oil Springs may refer to: Oil Springs, Ontario, a village in Lambton County, Ontario Oil Springs, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Johnson County...
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    Oil Springs Reservation or Oil Spring Reservation is an Indian reservation of the federally recognized Seneca Nation that is located in southwestern New...
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    struck oil at Petrolia, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) north of Oil Springs. Petrolia quickly replaced Oil Springs as Canada's oil capital, leaving Oil Springs almost...
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    Petroleum (redirect from Crude oil)
    and it sparked a major oil drilling boom. The first commercial oil well in Canada became operational in 1858 at Oil Springs, Ontario (then Canada West)...
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    commercial oil well entered operation in Oil Springs, Ontario in 1858, while the first offshore oil well was drilled in 1896 in the Summerland Oil Field on...
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    Petroleum industry (redirect from Oil patch)
    Williams found oil above bedrock while Edwin Drake's well located oil within a bedrock reservoir. The discovery at Oil Springs touched off an oil boom which...
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    oil well after the discovery of oil in Oil Springs in 1857. The oil boom of Oil Springs was in full swing and wells popped up across Enniskillen. Oil...
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  • The Oil Springs Fire was a wildfire that started north of Grand Junction, Colorado on June 18, 2021. The fire burned 12,613 acres (5,104 ha) and was fully...
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    oil well in North America was in Oil Springs, Ontario, Canada in 1858, dug by James Miller Williams. The discovery at Oil Springs touched off an oil boom...
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    north of Cuba village on Route 305. Oil Springs Creek – A stream passing through the Village of Cuba. Oil Springs Reservation – A reservation of the Seneca...
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    Victorian Oil Town" and is often credited with starting the oil industry in North America, a claim shared with the nearby town of Oil Springs. Lambton...
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  • with the ZIP code 41238. Oil Springs takes its name from the natural oil springs discovered in Johnson County. The springs once fed a popular health...
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  • "Spices for Catan" and "Explorers & Pirates". Introduced in 2011, Catan: Oil Springs is an expansion of the basic Settlers game designed to draw attention...
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  • Kerosene (redirect from Stove oil)
    had been discovered at Oil Springs, Ontario in 1858, and southern Poland, where Ignacy Łukasiewicz had been distilling lamp oil from petroleum seeps since...
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  • oil driller, businessman and photographer. Shaw is best known for striking Canada's first oil gusher at Oil Springs on January 16, 1862. Shaw's oil gusher...
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    The first oil well in Canada was dug by hand (rather than drilled) in 1858 by James Miller Williams near his asphalt plant at Oil Springs, Ontario. At...
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    Petroleum seep (redirect from Oil seep)
    account of a visit of a Franciscan, Joseph de la Roche d'Allion, to the oil springs of New York was published in Sagard's Histoire du Canada. In North America...
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    County, Chautauqua County) Cayuga Nation of New York (Seneca County) Oil Springs (Cattaraugus County, Allegany County) Oneida Indian Nation (Madison County)...
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    gain a New York State Appeals Court ruling in 1861 that restored the Oil Springs Reservation to the Seneca. Chainbreaker was born near Seneca Lake in...
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  • Oil Springs Methodist Church is a historic church at the junction of KY 580 and KY 40 in Oil Springs, Kentucky. It was built in 1893 and added to the National...
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    World Records. In North America, the first oil well was drilled in 1858 by James Miller Williams in Oil Springs, Ontario, Canada. In the United States, the...
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    examples of transverse leaf springs exist as well. Leaf springs can serve multiple suspension functions: location, springing, and to some extent damping...
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    of oil. Santa Fe Springs is the birthplace of the Shelby Cobra. In 1962 Carroll Shelby set up shop in Dean Moon's speed shop in Santa Fe Springs. Shelby...
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  • rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons...
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  • machines. Oil Springs, Ontario, the world's first commercial oil well (1858). Drake Well Museum, site of the American first successful oil well in Titusville...
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    with the oil discovered in nearby Oil Springs in 1858, led to the dramatic growth of the petroleum industry in this area. Because Oil Springs was the first...
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    The Oil Museum of Canada, is a petroleum heritage museum in Oil Springs, Ontario, Canada. The museum is located on the site where James Miller Williams...
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  • two people. The others were Twombly, Maine; Success, New Hampshire; Oil Springs Reservation, Cattaraugus County, New York; and Monowi, Nebraska. The...
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    December 1861. The Shaw Gusher in Oil Springs, Ontario, was Canada's first oil gusher. On January 16, 1862, it shot oil from over 60 metres (200 ft) below...
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  • "Live Well: Oil pulling draws fans, skeptics in Colorado Springs". The Gazette. Colorado Springs, Colorado. Archived from the original on 23 August 2014...
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