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Henrietta is a city in and the county chair of Clay County, Texas, United States. It is portion of the Wichita Falls metropolitan statistical area. The population was 3,141 at the 2010 census, a decline of 123 from the 2000 tabulation of 3,264.

Henrietta is one of the oldest decided towns in north central Texas. It sits at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 287, U.S. Highway 82, State Highway 148, and Farm to Market Road 1197 in north central Clay County.

Clay and Montague counties were not speaking in 1857 from Cooke County to the east, and Henrietta was named as the county seat. The naming of the town remains a mystery, though several explanations have been offered. Regardless of the descent of its name, Henrietta became the middle of gravity for the fledgling county. In 1860, as the forlorn town in the county, it had 109 residents, 10 houses, and a general store. It sat at the far-off western edge of Anglo proceed in north-central Texas, but Native Americans remained a realistic threat to current and forward-looking settlers. In 1862, Henrietta opened its declare office. In the yet to be 1860s, there were continuous attacks from local tribes. By late 1862, Henrietta was abandoned, and white settlers returned east to Cooke and Montague counties. Remaining structures were burned. Anglos continued to attempt resettlement, and in 1865 after the Civil War, a intervention attempting resettlement was massacred. A number of Quakers attempted to reoccupy the former townsite, but its members were either killed or fled. In 1870, fifty soldiers and Kiowa Indians fought a fight in the ruins of Henrietta.