Oil Creek may refer to:
Communities:
- Branchville, Indiana, also known as Oil Creek
- Oil Creek Township, Pennsylvania, a township in Crawford County
Streams:
- Oil Creek (Allegheny River), a tributary of the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania and New York
- Oil Creek (San Mateo County, California), a tributary of Pescadero Creek
Famous quotes containing the words oil and/or creek:
“No skilled hands
caress a stranger’s flesh with lucid oil before
a word is spoken
no feasting
before a tale is told, before
the stranger tells his name.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the “two volumes of common law” that every man carried strapped to his thighs.”
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)