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Enid
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city in and county seat of Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oklahoma
- County
- Garfield
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- David Mason
- City manager
- Jerald Gilbert
- City
- 74.02 sq mi (191.71 km )
- Land
- 73.93 sq mi (191.49 km )
- Water
- 0.081 sq mi (0.21 km )
- Elevation
- 1,250 ft (380 m)
- Density
- 694.0/sq mi (267.94/km )
- Metro
- 62,846 (US: 384th )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Zip codes
- 73701, 73703
- Fips code
- 40-23950
- Website
- www .enid .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Home - City of Enid Oklahoma
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Encyclopedic overview
Enid (/ˈiːnɪd/ EE-nid) is the ninth-largest city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is the county seat of Garfield County. In the 2020 census, the population was 51,308. Enid was founded during the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in the Land Run of 1893, and is named after Enid, a character in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King. In 1991, the Oklahoma state legislature designated Enid the "purple martin capital of Oklahoma." Enid holds the nickname of "Queen Wheat City" and "Wheat Capital" of Oklahoma and the United States for its immense grain storage capacity, and has the third-largest grain storage capacity in the world.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Enid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.