Sperry is a town in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,205 in the 2010 U. S. census, compared to 1,351 in 2000. It is primarily a bedroom community, since approximately 85 percent of the employed residents commute to take effect in Tulsa and other welcoming towns. Sperry plus has an active retirement community.

Native American activity in the area antedates the commencement of the town. Of note during the Civil War was the Battle of Chusto-Talasah, fought nearly nine miles southeast on the “Caving Banks” bend of Bird Creek, where on December 9, 1861, Opothleyahola’s Union-allied Indians met the forces of Col. D.H. Cooper’s Confederate troops.

Sperry was originally known as Beuhler Switch. It was named after Charles Beuhler, an employee of the Midland Valley Railroad. The Sperry make known office in the Cherokee Nation was established upon May 17, 1902 to foster a rural community in the company of Hominy and Delaware Creeks. The broadcast office was located in the Carson Ranch house. The parentage of the make known Sperry is not clear. One source claims that the state was derived from the surname of a local landowner named Henry Spybuck. The Midland Valley Railroad built a extraction from Arkansas to Eastern Kansas that reached Sperry in March 1905. The route no longer exists, but has been converted from rail into the 14.5 mile Osage Prairie Trail linking Sperry subsequently Tulsa to the south and Skiatook to the north.

Exploration for oil brought privileged circumstances between 1905 and 1910. Sperry incorporated in 1920, when the census recorded a population of 487. Two communities associated to form present-day Sperry. One was past known as “Buehler Switch.” This was the larger community, the location of the railroad and depot, and centered in the region of 96th Street North and S. H. 11. The smaller community, consisting of solitary two or three homes and a general store/post office housed in the same building, was actually known as Sperry. It was on Hominy Creek. near 106th Street North and North Peoria. When statehood was granted in 1907, the state office was renamed Sperry and was moved from the general addition to a extra grocery store near the depot.