Editing Guymon, Oklahoma (section)

==Economy==
[[File:GuymonOK Phillips66 Well No1.jpg|thumb|Phillips 66 Well No.1 in Centennial Park in Guymon]]

Guymon is a hub for the local economy, which includes [[wheat]] farming, [[livestock]], [[Domestic pig|hog]] and [[dairy]] farming, manufacturing, and oil and natural gas production.  A United States soil conservation station is located nearby. Local manufacturers produce agricultural tillage tools, pressure tanks, and formula feeds. The town of [[Goodwell, Oklahoma]], home of [[Oklahoma Panhandle State University]], lies {{convert|11|mi|km|0}} to the southwest of Guymon.

Opening of the Hugoton-Panhandle Gas Field led to the establishment of two [[carbon black]] plants, the Dandee Manufacturing Company (makers of farming equipment), an ice plant, the OK Welding Manufacturing Company, a feed mill, the Phillips Petroleum cracking plant, and the Southwestern Public Service Company generating plant. The Guymon Municipal Hospital (later renamed Memorial Hospital of Texas County) opened in 1949.<ref name="EOHC-Guymon"/>

The city's largest employer, Seaboard [[pork]] processing plant, operates at double shift capacity and processes about 18,000 hogs each day, and its 2,300 employees make up about 20% of the entire city's population.  Hitch Ranch, which began opening cattle feedlots during the 1960s, is the city's second-largest employer.  A Swift and Company packing plant is located near Hitch Ranch.  The City of Guymon, the Panhandle Telephone Cooperative, and the hospital round out the list of top employers.<ref name="EOHC-Guymon"/> The employment opportunities created by these industries, especially of the Seaboard company, has led to an influx of Hispanics and recent immigrants to the U.S. which accounts for the population growth of Guymon and the surrounding area while most of Oklahoma's small cities and rural communities are losing population.<ref name=Foureizos />

A movement to harness wind power for electricity generation began a large-scale boom in the Guymon area in 2011. The DeWind Company had two 40-megawatt projects online (near [[Goodwell, Oklahoma|Goodwell]]) in 2012, joined by a 200-megawatt project in 2015.<ref name="KEIN">[http://kansasenergy.org/wind_projects_OK.htm "Oklahoma Wind Energy Projects." Kansas Energy Information Network.] Accessed August 4, 2015.</ref>