Editing Snyder, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
The community of Snyder was established in Oklahoma Territory, just {{convert |2|mi|km}} south of [[Mountain Park, Oklahoma|Mountain Park]] in 1902. The founder was [[Charles G. Jones]] of Oklahoma City, president of the [[Oklahoma City and Western Railroad]],{{efn|Charles G. Jones and Ed Overholtzer founded the Oklahoma City and Western Railroad, which was later acquired by the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway.}} who had a dispute with that municipality. Jones named the new town for Bryan Snyder, an employee of the [[St. Louis and San Francisco Railway]] (Frisco), which ran north and south through the townsite.<ref name="EOHC-Snyder">Taylor, Ethel Crisp. [http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=SN002 "Snyder,"] ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'', Oklahoma Historical Society, 2009. Accessed March 25, 2015.</ref>

[[1905 Snyder tornado|In 1905, a tornado hit Snyder]] and killed 97 people, including the superintendent of public schools. Fires in 1906 and 1909 destroyed most of the wooden buildings along Main Street. These were quickly replaced by brick buildings. By the time of statehood in 1907, Snyder had a population of 607 residents. The number grew to 1,122 in 1910.<ref name="EOHC-Snyder"/>