Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Sperry, OK

Sperry is a town in west-central Tulsa County, Oklahoma, on State Highway 11, about ten miles north of downtown Tulsa and five miles south of Skiatook.

Sperry was originally known as Beuhler Switch, named after Charles Beuhler, an employee of the Midland Valley Railroad.

The Sperry post office was established in the Cherokee Nation on May 17, 1902, to serve a dispersed rural community between Hominy Creek and Delaware Creek; the name Sperry itself is of unclear origin, with one source tracing it to a local landowner named Henry Spybuck.

The Midland Valley Railroad reached Sperry in March 1905, and exploration for oil brought the town prosperity between 1905 and 1910.

By 1918 booming Sperry had a hotel, a dozen stores and telephone connections.

Sperry incorporated in early 1920, and its first official census that year recorded 487 inhabitants.

Sperry functions today primarily as a bedroom community, since approximately 85 percent of its employed residents commute to work in Tulsa and other nearby towns, and it also supports an active retirement community.

The 2020 census counted 1,115 people in Sperry, down slightly from 1,206 in 2010.

About nine miles southeast of Sperry, on the "Caving Banks" bend of Bird Creek, Union-allied Native American forces under Opothleyahola fought Confederate troops at the Battle of Chusto-Talasah on December 9, 1861.