[4] It is primarily a bedroom community, since approximately 85 percent of the employed residents commute to work in Tulsa and other nearby towns.

Of note during the Civil War was the Battle of Chusto-Talasah, fought approximately 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.

[7] The Sperry post office in the Cherokee Nation was established on May 17, 1902, to serve a rural community between Hominy and Delaware Creeks.

[8] The Midland Valley Railroad built a line from Arkansas to Eastern Kansas that reached Sperry in March 1905.

[5] The route no longer exists, but has been converted from rail into the 14.5 mile Osage Prairie Trail linking Sperry with Tulsa to the south and Skiatook to the north.

The smaller community, consisting of only two or three homes and a general store/post office housed in the same building, was actually known as Sperry.

[5] From 1982 to 1989, the Sperry WPA armory served as headquarters to the newly organized Oklahoma Army National Guard 45th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.

[5] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.9 square miles (2.3 km2), all land.

The Elementary, Middle, and High School buildings share a campus on the western edge of Sperry.