This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UYB.2ACE/1482.1 Message Board Post: Oil City was formerly known as Wheeler. Its in western Carter County, 7 miles north of Wilson. Post Office name changed to Oil City on October 15, 1909 and discontinued January 5, 1930. It it west of Dillard/Dillard Rd.