Petrolia, Kansas

Infobox Settlement
name = Petrolia
settlement_type = Unincorporated
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map_caption = Map of Allen County ()


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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = United States of America
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name1 = Kansas
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Allen
subdivision_type3 = Township
subdivision_name3 = Logan
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timezone = Central (CST)
utc_offset = -6
timezone_DST = CDT
utc_offset_DST = -5
elevation_footnotes = GR|3
elevation_m = 290
elevation_ft = 951
latd = 37 |latm = 44 |lats = 45 |latNS = N
longd = 95 |longm = 28 |longs = 18 |longEW = W

postal_code_type = ZIP code
postal_code = 66720
area_code = 620
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blank_info = 20-55625 GR|3
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blank1_info = 474962 GR|3
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Petrolia is an unincorporated community situated along the Neosho River in the southwestern part of Allen County, located in southeast Kansas, in the central United States of America. Although official populations are not compiled for unincorporated places, the population of the surrounding Logan Township was 225 in the 2000 census.

History

In 1910, Petrolia had a money order postoffice, an express office, and was a trading point for the neighborhood. The population that year was 200. [Cite encyclopedia| editor=Frank W. Blackmar| title=Petrolia| url=http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/p/petrolia.html| accessdate=2007-12-15| encyclopedia=Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc ...| volume=II| publisher=Standard Pub Co| location=Chicago| year=1912| pages=369]

Petrolia had a post office from July 1905 until September 1953. [Cite web| title=Kansas Post Offices Database| url=http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/places/postoffices.htm| publisher=Kansas State Historical Society| accessdate=2007-12-15| Containing information taken from Cite book| first=Robert W| last=Baughman| title=Kansas Post Offices, May 29, 1828–August 3, 1961| publisher=Kansas Postal History Society|]

Geography

Petrolia is located at coord|37|44|45|N|95|28|18|W|type:city_region:US-KS (37.7458767, -95.4716486),GR|3 in Sections 31–32, Township 26 south, Range 18 east. Less than a mile from the southern border of Allen County, it is situated west of the Neosho River and to the south of Scatter Creek. Contained entirely within Logan Township, it is about 5 miles south-southwest of Humboldt and 13 miles from Iola (the county seat). [Cite web| title=KDOT County Maps| url=http://www.ksdot.org/burtransplan/maps/Mapscounties.asp| year=1999| accessdate=2007-12-15|] U.S. Route 169 crosses the Neosho River a mile to the south of Petrolia.

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