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." The town of Earlsborough began in 1891, when the Choctaw Coal and Railway built a line west from the Seminole Nation into Oklahoma Territory. The tow…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." The town of Earlsborough began in 1891, when the Choctaw Coal and Railway 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.
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