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Earlsboro
Oklahomatown
Earlsboro
Total population
571
Median home value
$166,000
Bachelor's+
Median income
$68,906
Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Overview
Earlsboro is a town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 594 by the 2020 United States census. It was once called "...the town that whisky built and oil broke."
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History
The town of Earlsborough (as it was spelled on the town plat) began in 1891, when the Choctaw Coal and Railway (later the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad) built a line west from the Seminole Nation into Oklahoma Territory. The town was located one-half mile inside Oklahoma Territory. It was named for James Earls, a local African American who had served as an orderly for Confederate General Joseph Wheeler during the Civil War. The spelling of the town name changed when the Earlsboro post office opened on June 12, 1895.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and (0.22%) is water.
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Largest nearby schools
- SHAWNEE HSHigh · Shawnee · 987 students · 15:1 ratio
- SHAWNEE MSMiddle · Shawnee · 711 students · 13.9:1 ratio
- TECUMSEH HSHigh · Tecumseh · 616 students · 16.2:1 ratio
- GROVE PUBLIC SCHOOLElementary · Shawnee · 551 students · 16.7:1 ratio
- NORTH ROCK CREEK ESElementary · Shawnee · 467 students · 20.3:1 ratio
- NORTH ROCK CREEK HSHigh · Shawnee · 454 students · 18.9:1 ratio
- TECUMSEH MSMiddle · Tecumseh · 451 students · 17.3:1 ratio
- SOUTH ROCK CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOLElementary · Shawnee · 428 students · 18.6:1 ratio
Public K–12 schools within ~10 mi from Urban Institute Education Data Portal (NCES Common Core of Data, 2022).
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Recent natural events nearby
- Wildfire WRIGHT, Hughes, OklahomaWildfires · 2026-08-29 · 39 mi
- Wildfire Atoka Lake, Atoka, OklahomaWildfires · 2026-09-14 · 75 mi
- Wildfire PINTO, Stephens, OklahomaWildfires · 2026-09-08 · 77 mi
- Wildfire 2690, Caddo, OklahomaWildfires · 2026-08-21 · 79 mi
- Wildfire GRACEMONT, Caddo, OklahomaWildfires · 2026-09-13 · 81 mi
- Wildfire Buck Creek, Pushmataha, OklahomaWildfires · 2026-08-25 · 85 mi
- Wildfire Alexander Trail Fire, Pushmataha, OklahomaWildfires · 2026-08-30 · 104 mi
- Wildfire Alexander Trail, Pushmataha, OklahomaWildfires · 2026-08-30 · 104 mi
Wildfires, storms and other events from NASA EONET (last 12 months, within 250 mi).
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • US Census Bureau (ACS 5-year estimates)
- • NOAA National Weather Service
- • Wikidata
- • NCES via Urban Institute Education Data Portal
- • CDC PLACES
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • NASA EONET