Facts About Enid
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Enid was a filming location for the movies Dillinger, The Killer Inside Me and Wildlife.
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Enid was founded in 1893 when the Cherokee Outlet was opened.
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Legend says that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, died in Enid around 1903. A man named David E. George committed suicide in Enid, Oklahoma Territory, in 1903 and claimed to have been Booth himself.
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The city has a total area of 74.1 square miles, of which 74.0 square miles is land and 0.1 square miles is water.
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Famous Enidites include astronaut, Owen K. Garriott; musician, Michael Hedges; legendary basketball coach, Don Haskins; opera singer, Leona Mitchell; NBA players, Mark and Brent Price; author, Marquis James; oil billionaire, Harold Hamm; attorney, Stephen Jones; plus many, many others.
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Enid is home to the annual Tri-State Music Festival which was started in 1932 by Russell L. Wiley, who was Phillips University band director from 1928 to 1934.
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Enid is believed that the city was named after a character in the “Idylls of the King,” a story written by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
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The economy of the city of Enid largely depends on oil and agriculture.
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Enid is twinned with the following sister city Kollo, Niger.
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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.
