Petrolia had its original settlers from Oil City when the Wichita Falls and Oklahoma Railroad was built through the area in 1904. The site was named Petrolia after a town in Pennsylvania because of the nearby oilfields. Petrolia reached its highest population, 914, in the mid-1920s and was incorporated by 1930. The city is situated at the crossing of State highways 79 and 148, fourteen miles north of Henrietta and fifteen miles east of Wichita Falls in northern Clay County, Texas. Petrolia is also part of the Wichita Falls, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is served by the Petrolia Independent School District and is home to the Petrolia High School Pirates. With a total area of 0.73 square miles, they reached a population of 663 in 2017.
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