Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Pottsboro, TX

Pottsboro is a town in Grayson County with a population of 2,488 at the 2020 census, up from 2,160 in 2010 and 1,579 in 2000.

Pottsboro was established in 1876 by James A. Potts, who donated land for a townsite and a railroad right-of-way to persuade the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad to extend its line west from Denison.

The town incorporated in 1880 under the name 'Pottsborough,' and its post office opened in 1891.

By 1885 Pottsboro had 200 residents, a cotton gin, several gristmills, and churches, and it grew to 454 people by 1920 before declining to 312 by the mid-1940s.

Devastating fires destroyed much of Pottsboro's business section four separate times, in 1890, 1902, 1923, and 1924.

Pottsboro covers 2.9 square miles, all of it land, and State Highway 289 runs through town; Denison is 8 miles east and county seat Sherman is 12 miles southeast, within the Sherman-Denison metropolitan area.

Pottsboro bills itself as the gateway to Lake Texoma, the 89,000-acre Red River reservoir completed in 1944 that the local chamber credits with about 1,250 miles of shoreline.

Perrin Field, a military air base, was built just south of Pottsboro in 1941 during World War II.

The Pottsboro school district is the largest employer in the area, and at the 2000 census the town had 586 households and 454 families.