Eagleton, Indiana lies to the west of the city of Pawnee and has a population of 9,500. Shortly after Pawnee was founded in May of 1817, a group of the wealthiest and more prominent citizens, finding the soil untenable and the smell unpleasant, "evacuated" to the west and founded Eagleton. Eagleton is located on top of a hot spring which allows them to grow plants that other cities in Indiana cannot plant. According to Leslie Knope, Eagleton is "the land of rich, snobby jerks". It has a very negative reputation among most Pawneeans, and vice versa.