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Spaulding, Oklahoma

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Holdenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 74848. It lies near Potato Hill. The Survey maps it on the Holdenville quadrangle. 149 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Spaulding within Hughes County

On record in Spaulding

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Spaulding grew from 62 to 149 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
200062
2010178+116 (+187%)
2020149-29 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Spaulding between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,072 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 August 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution2.7 acresWewoka AgencyCHILLY FISH
29 March 2010Debris and open burning1.6 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeWOODS
2 March 2007Arson/incendiarism4.1 acresWewoka AgencyROCKIN M
15 March 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeKEYSTONE
8 February 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined420 acresOkmulgee Field OfficeGREENLEAF
23 February 1996Arson/incendiarism285 acresChickasaw AgencyCANDICE
22 February 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWewoka AgencyCHIEF
20 February 2014Power generation/transmission/distribution1.7 acresWewoka AgencyPIT BULL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hughes County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Spaulding: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hughes County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spaulding in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 tornado, 1 hail. The reports record 3 deaths and 5 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2024Tornado (EF3)Spaulding2 killed, 4 hurt, $1,500,000The Spaulding-Holdenville Tornado developed along County Road N369 in the south side of the town of Spaulding and moved north through Spaulding causing roof damage to a few homes and damaging some outbuildings, metal buildings and trees. The damage in and near Spaulding was primarily EF1 damage.||The tornado became wider as it moved north-northeast from Spaulding becoming almost two-thirds of a mile wide as it crossed County Road E135 and a mile wide as it moved north of County Road E134. Most of the damage west of Holdenville was between Spaulding Road and County Road N369 missing the most populated part of Holdenville to the west and the missing the Davis Correctional Facility to the east. The tornado continued producing roof damage to homes as well as damage to outbuildings, metal buildings, trees and power poles. ||The tornado was still about one mile in width as it moved north-northeast crossing US Highway 270 and County Road E132, but the intensity increased from EF1 to EF3 as it approached County Road E131. Multiple mobile homes were completely destroyed in this area. Two fatalities occurred in mobile homes here where a 35 year old man was killed in one mobile home and a 4 month old girl was killed in another.||Although the tornado moved through less densely populated areas of Hughes County continued moving north-northeast through less densely populated areas of Hughes County, it still produced significant roof damage to homes and destroyed mobile homes as it continued moving north-northeast, especially along State Highway 48 north of Holdenville, County Road E125 just east of State Highway 48, and E120 Road where EF2 damage was observed in each of these areas. The tornado then crossed E119 Road into Okfuskee County. See the Eastern Oklahoma entry from NWS Tulsa for the continuation of this tornado.
April 2025Tornado (EF1)Spaulding1 killed, 1 hurt, $400,000Tornado began south of Spaulding, moving to the north into Spaulding and then northeast. EF1 damage was found in Spaulding at a manufactured home which suffered major damage along E138 Road where one man was killed and a woman injured. Several homes had at least minor damage, with several homes losing roofs, windows, and walls.
April 2011HailSpaulding-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hughes County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Holdenville5.1 miles12
Atwood6.7 miles12
Cross Roads10.2 miles12
Calvin10.6 miles13
Yeager11.3 miles12
Horntown11.4 miles12
Gerty14.6 miles14
Citra15.4 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on SpauldingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2194972The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1098340. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.