Snyder


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Marker Number: 893 
Marker Title: City of Snyder 
Index Entry: Snyder 
Address: 1925 24th St. 
City: Snyder 
County: Scurry 
UTM Zone: 14 
UTM Easting: 320110 
UTM Northing: 3621726 
Subject Codes: CY; OL; RR 
Year Marker Erected: 1966 
Designations: na 
Marker Location: 1925 24th Street (at city hall), Snyder 
Marker Size: 27" x 42" 
Repairs Completed: Refinish. 
Marker Text: Originally established as a trading post on Deep Creek for buffalo 
hunters and called "Hide Town," because of many hide tents and dugouts, 
the city of Snyder takes it name from W. H. (Pete) Snyder, a Dutch trader who 
established a store here in 1878. A major event in the town's growth came in 
1908 when the Roscoe, Snyder & Pacific Railroad brought the "Iron Horse" to Snyder. 
The city incorporated in 1907. Late in 1948 the city moved into another era when the 
huge Canyon Reef Oil Field was discovered. With influx of oil field workers and personnel,
 the quiet county seat became an overcrowded boom town overnight, with the population
 jumping from 4,000 to 12,000 in a year's time. Today Snyder, the county seat of 
Scurry County, continues as a regional trade center for ranching, farming and oil
 production. (1966)