The community of Spaulding began to develop after the St. Louis, Oklahoma and Southern Railway (later the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway) constructed a line between 1900 and 1901 to connect Sapulpa with the Indian Territory area north of the Red River.

[5] By 1906, there was a Spaulding school, which had a principal, Nora Coate, and a student enrollment of one Indian and fifty white children.

In 1918, R. L. Polk's Oklahoma State Gazetteer and Business Directory estimated the town's population at two hundred.

At that time, eight groceries and general stores served the surrounding agricultural area, which produced cotton and wheat.

After incorporation the town received matching funds from the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture to buy fire-fighting equipment.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the community's first federal census recorded 62 residents.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.2 square miles (8.3 km2), all land.