Hoot Owl is a town in Mayes County, Oklahoma, As of the 2020 census, the population was 0,
Geography
Hoot Owl is in northeastern Mayes County, on the eastern shore of Lake Hudson, a reservoir on the Neosho River. It is by road southwest of Spavinaw and north of Salina. The town is northwest of Oklahoma State Highway 20 at the end of what mapping services label "Hoot Owl Road," but the narrow dead-end road is simply designated as No. 443.5.
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Its population peaked at 5 in 1990; the 2000 census initially gave the town a total population of 0, but then revised the figure to 1. A census official explained "We don't have specific information that informs us that there is exactly one person in this town, rather our estimates production programs are designed to allocate fractional shares of the county population to its component place parts, and in this instance, a fractional share is rounded to one person as our estimated total for the town."
2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Hoot Owl was unpopulated.
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|+ Racial composition as of the 2020 census
! Race !! Number !! Percent
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| White || 0 || 0.0%
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| Black or African American || 0 || 0.0%
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| American Indian and Alaska Native || 0 || 0.0%
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| Asian || 0 || 0.0%
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| Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander || 0 || 0.0%
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| Some other race || 0 || 0.0%
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| Two or more races || 0 || 0.0%
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| Hispanic or Latino (of any race) || 0 || 0.0%
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Education
It is in the Salina Public Schools<!--UNI 26730--> school district.