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Spaulding is a small town in Hughes County in east-central Oklahoma, about six miles southwest of Holdenville, the county seat.

The community got its start after the St. Louis, Oklahoma and Southern Railway - later part of the Frisco system - built its line from Sapulpa toward the Red River through the area in 1900-1901.

Spaulding's post office was established on December 29, 1902.

Although the settlement dates to the first years of the 1900s, Spaulding was not formally incorporated as a town until March 17, 1993.

For most of the twentieth century Spaulding remained an unincorporated railroad-era settlement, only organizing a town government in the 1990s.

Spaulding was first counted in a federal census in 2000, when just 62 residents were recorded.

The town's population jumped to 178 in the 2010 census before settling at 149 in the 2020 census.

The 2020 census put Spaulding's median age at 43.7 years.

The Spaulding School Gymnasium, built as a Works Progress Administration project, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.