Quinlan is a rural city in the southern ration of Hunt County, Texas, United States, within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 1,394. It is 5 miles (8 km) west of Lake Tawakoni.

The city of Quinlan began practically 1892 as a End on the Texas Midland Railroad, which was owned by famed devotion investor Hetty Green, called by the contemporary press “The Witch of Wall Street”. The railroad was operated by her son, Edward H.R. Green. Texas Midland became a supplementary of the Houston & Texas Central Railroad, and the city which built up concerning a depot constructed here amongst the towns of Roberts and Greenville was named Quinlan in rave review of George A. Quinlan, the general overseer of the Houston & Texas Central railroad.

The broadcast office opened in Quinlan in 1894, and by 1896, the city was incorporated. Harry Ford served as first mayor. Quinlan soon became the middle of a large agricultural area, providing a railroad shipping dwindling for growers of cotton and further crops. By the to the front 20th century, the town boasted three cotton gins, numerous businesses and fraternal organizations, banks, schools, churches, and homes.

Oil exploration and production overtook cotton crop growing as the area’s economic base in the 1930s and 1940s, and the construction of Lake Tawakoni in the 1950s brought complementary economic boost to the community.