Titusville is a city in the far eastern corner of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States.

[3] Titusville is known as the birthplace of the American oil industry and for a number of years was the leading oil-producing region in the world.

Titus named the village Edinburg(h), but as it grew, the settlers began to call the hamlet Titusville.

They had many difficulties, but on August 27, at the site of an oil spring just south of Titusville, they finally drilled a well that could be commercially successful.

The next year the railroad line was extended south to Petroleum Centre and Oil City.

That fall, President Ulysses S. Grant visited Titusville to view the important region.

One resident of note was Franklin S. Tarbell, whose large Italianate home still stands.

He first moved a few miles south in Venango County and established a wooden stock tank business.

His daughter, Ida Minerva Tarbell, grew up amidst the sounds and smells of the oil industry.

She became an accomplished writer and published a series of articles about the business practices of the Standard Oil Company and its president, John D. Rockefeller, which sparked legislative action in Congress concerning monopolies.

Another fire occurred on June 5, 1892, when Oil Creek flooded and a tank of petroleum ether overturned.

The petroleum ether ignited and, in the ensuing explosions, 60 men, women and children died.

The iron and steel industries dominated the town in the early twentieth century, with lumber eventually reclaiming its former pre-eminence.

[8] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.9 square miles (7.5 km2), all land.

[2] As of the 2017 United States Census, there were 5,418 people, 2,397 households, and 1,337 families residing in the city.