Haskell is a town in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,007 at the 2010 census, a get of 13.7 percent higher than the figure of 1,765 recorded in 2000. Haskell was acknowledged in 1904 on the Midland Valley Railroad. It was named for town site developer Charles N. Haskell, who would become the first bureaucrat of the State of Oklahoma in 1907.

Haskell was founded just about one and a half miles northeast of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation town of Sawokla, which already had a name office, a growth and a cotton gin. Sawokla was a Hitachita town and had been the home of Creek Chief Samuel Checote. The original 80 acres (32 ha) tract had been allotted to Amos Rolland, a enthusiast of the Creek Nation. The collection and gin relocated from Sawokla to Haskell next the railroad was completed in 1904. The first store, S. Beshara and Brothers, was started in a tent by two immigrants from Syria. Haskell’s first declare office was traditional in 1902, with Nat Lambertson, owner of a new hardware and general store, appointed as first postmaster. Other to the fore businesses were C. E. Henson’s general addition and A. J. Englert’s mill and elevator. The Haskell National Bank was organized in 1904, soon followed by the First National Bank, the International Bank, and the Arkansas Valley Bank. In the further on 1990s, the town appointed Charlie B. White, a native son, its first black mayor. He died upon March 17, 2013.^{[citation needed]}

The railroad enabled farmers near Haskell to ship their produce (grain, hay, corn, melons and cotton) to northern and eastern markets. Haskell counted 720 residents at the get older of statehood in 1907. The Robertson Memorial Presbyterian Church, named for a noted missionary relations who had lived in the area, was built in 1909. The President of Henry Kendall College came from Muskogee to preside on pinnacle of the dedication. The building is still in use in the 21st Century.

Gas and oil were discovered close Haskell in 1910. This sparked a times of prosperity, and Haskell soon could boast of improvements such as paved streets, concrete sidewalks, electric lights, natural gas lines, and water works.