U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for June 28: First Refinery

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

FIRST REFINERY

Profile America — Wednesday, June 28th. America's first commercial oil refinery was put in operation this month in 1860. It was built in Titusville, Pennsylvania, on the banks of Oil Creek. That town was the site of the country's first productive oil well in 1859, and these developments made the area some 100 miles north of Pittsburgh the cradle of America's oil industry. The first refinery was focused on extracting kerosene from the crude oil. Any gasoline by-product was dumped into the creek. There are 139 oil refineries operating in the country today. Four of them are in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, there are more than 8,200 oil and gas extraction establishments across the country, with annual revenues of around a third of a trillion dollars. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.

Sources: Kane's Famous First Facts, 3529
Owner William Barnsdall/accessed 4/4/2017:
http://mykindred.com/cloud/TX/getperson.php?personID=I54989&tree=mykindred01 
Early oil industry: www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/findapark/oilcreek/index.htm 
Crime and blunder/accessed 4/4/2017:
www.bartleby.com/81/17622.html 
Oil refineries/accessed 4/4/2017: www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pnp_cap1_dcu_nus_a.htm 
Pennsylvania/accessed 4/4/2017: www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pnp_cap1_dcu_SPA_a.htm 
Oil and gas establishments/County Business Patterns/NAICS 211: https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/BP/2014/00A1//naics~211 
Value/Economic Census/NAICS 211: https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ECN/2012_US/00A1//naics~211

Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu). 

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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau