Hoot Owl, Oklahoma

Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox settlement Hoot Owl is a town in 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">Template:Cite web</ref>

Geography

Hoot Owl is in northeastern Mayes County, on the eastern shore of Lake Hudson, a reservoir on the Neosho River. It is Template:Convert by road southwest of Spavinaw and Template:Convert north of Salina. The town is Template:Convert 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 Template:Convert, of which Template:Convert, or 1.67%, are water.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2024"/>

Demographics

Template:US Census population Its population peaked at 5 in 1990; the 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 2010, the population had risen to 4.<ref name=census>Template:Cite web</ref> By the United States Census, 2020 the population was back to zero.

Education

It is in the Salina Public Schools school district.<ref name=CensusSDMap2020>Template:Cite web - Text list</ref>

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