Editing Hoot Owl, Oklahoma

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'''Hoot Owl''' is a town in [[Mayes County, Oklahoma|Mayes County]], [[Oklahoma]], As of the 2020 census, the population was 0,<ref name="Census 2020"/> down from 4 in 2010.

==History==
Hoot Owl was incorporated in 1977 by a family of three in order to "keep trespassing hunters and other towns from encroaching on their land." In 1992 the town filed to be dissolved after a bank foreclosed the property, and the town's two residents, mayor and founder William R. Bradley Jr., and his son, city clerk Robert Bradley, both voted in favor of dissolution. The foreclosing bank filed suit and successfully blocked the dissolution in 1993. The town was then sold to a Tulsa doctor, Thomas Robert, in 1994. Robert told interviewers he intended to use the town as a weekend home.<ref name="World">{{cite web | url= https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/oklahoma-s-smallest-community-nowhere-to-be-found/article_146490a2-858d-520a-844c-0a784f008821.html| title= Oklahoma's smallest community nowhere to be found| publisher= Curtis Killman, Tulsa World, July 5, 2010| accessdate=February 14, 2020}}</ref>

==Geography==
Hoot Owl is in northeastern Mayes County, on the eastern shore of [[Lake Hudson (Oklahoma)|Lake Hudson]], a reservoir on the [[Neosho River]]. It is {{convert|12|mi}} by road southwest of [[Spavinaw, Oklahoma|Spavinaw]] and {{convert|7|mi|0}} north of [[Salina, Oklahoma|Salina]]. The town is {{convert|2.5|mi|1}} northwest of [[Oklahoma State Highway 20]] at the end of what mapping services label "Hoot Owl Road," but the narrow dead-end road is simply designated as No. 443.5.<ref name ="World" />

According to the [[U.S. Census Bureau]], the site has a total area of {{convert|0.06|sqmi|2}}, of which {{convert|0.001|sqmi|3}}, or 1.67%, are water.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2024"/> 

== Demographics ==
{{US Census population
|1980= 3
|1990= 5
|2000= 1
|2010= 4
|2020= 0
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
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Its population peaked at 5 in [[United States Census, 1990|1990]]; the [[United States Census, 2000|2000 census]] initially gave the town a total [[population]] of 0, but then revised the figure to 1. A census official explained "We don't have specific information that informs us that there is exactly one person in this town, rather our estimates production programs are designed to allocate fractional shares of the county population to its component place parts, and in this instance, a fractional share is rounded to one person as our estimated total for the town."<ref name ="World" />  By [[United States Census, 2010|2010]], the population had risen to 4.<ref name=census>{{cite web|title=U.S. Census website|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=March 4, 2011}}</ref>  By the [[United States Census, 2020]] the population was back to zero.

==Education==
It is in the [[Salina Public Schools]]<!--UNI 26730--> school district.<ref name=CensusSDMap2020>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st40_ok/schooldistrict_maps/c40097_mayes/DC20SD_C40097.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Mayes County, OK|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2024-10-13}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st40_ok/schooldistrict_maps/c40097_mayes/DC20SD_C40097_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref>

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{{Mayes County, Oklahoma}}

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[[Category:Towns in Mayes County, Oklahoma]]
[[Category:Towns in Oklahoma]]