Pithole, Pennsylvania
（重定向自Pithole）
![View from the bottom of a sparsely-wooded, inclined fielded in early autumn with a building overlooking the valley visible at the top.](/Images/godic/202502/03/PitholePA2453.jpg")
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![A map of Pennsylvania with a red dot near the northwestern portion of the state.](/Images/godic/202502/03/Pennsylvania_Locator_Map2453.PNG")
![Stereo card depicting the United States, or Frazier, Well](/Images/godic/202502/03/UnitedStatesWell-PitholePA2453.jpg")
Pithole, or Pithole City, is a ghost town in Cornplanter Township, Venango County in Pennsylvania, about 6 miles (9.7 km) from Oil Creek State Park and the Drake Well Museum, the site of the first commercial oil well in the United States. Pithole's sudden growth and equally rapid decline, as well as its status as a "proving ground" of sorts for the burgeoning petroleum industry, made it one of the most famous of oil boomtowns.