Oilville, VA Weather Forecast and Current Conditions (23129)
Feels Like 71°F
Current Weather
Feels Like 71°F
Forecast at a Glance
This Date in Weather History
1989 - Thunderstorms developing along a stationary front produced very heavy rain in the central U.S. Thunderstorms during the late morning and afternoon produced five to nine inches of rain around Lincoln NE, with an unofficial total of eleven inches near Holmes Park. Up to six and a half inches of rain soaked northern and western Iowa. Eighty to ninety percent of the homes in Shenandoah IA, where 5.89 inches of rain was received, reported basement flooding.
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Oilville 7 Day Weather Forecast Details
Monday Sep 8
Day: Sunny, with a high near 74. Northeast wind around 8 mph.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 47. Northeast wind 2 to 7 mph.
Tuesday Sep 9
Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 75. Northeast wind 5 to 12 mph.
Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 56. Northeast wind 5 to 8 mph.
Wednesday Sep 10
Day: Partly sunny, with a high near 72. North wind 6 to 9 mph.
Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 54.
Thursday Sep 11
Day: Sunny, with a high near 78.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 55.
Friday Sep 12
Day: Sunny, with a high near 81.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 56.
Saturday Sep 13
Day: Sunny, with a high near 79.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 54.
Sunday Sep 14
Day: Sunny, with a high near 80.
Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 57.
Sun & Moon Monthly
Sunrise 6:48 AM
Sunset 7:31 PM
Last Light 7:58 PM
Moonset 7:37 AM
Contiguous United States Extremes
Sun's High Temperature
112 at Stovepipe Wells, CA
Mon's Low Temperature
27 at 7 Miles South Southeast Of Moddersville, MI and 5 Miles East Of Davis, WV and 14 Miles West Southwest Of Mackay, ID
Weather Folklore
If there is dew on the grass in the morning, fair weather.
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About Oilville, Virginia
Oilville is an unincorporated community in Goochland County, Virginia, United States. Oilville is located on U.S. Route 250, 22 miles (35 km) west-northwest of Richmond. Oilville has a post office with ZIP code 23129.
The historic Woodlawn Plantation is located here. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Oilville got its unusual name because a Sassafras oil factory was located there in the 1900s:
In the Goochland County Historical Society Magazine Vol.26 from 1994, Wendell Watkins reminisces about his childhood in an article titled The Oilville Mill. He recalls that local legend had it that Oilville was an important stage coach stop on Three Chopt Road, known then as Horsepen Mills. He said that when a sassafras oil mill was set up there, it then became known as Oilville. He recalled “as a very small boy, I remember the sassafras logs laying about the woods and the holes where the stumps had been dug out. They used the stumps and roots only for distilling the oil.” For more information see the story Oilville? by "Wick Hunt" in "Oyster Ranching Etc.", online.
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