Guymon, Oklahoma Guymon, Oklahoma Location inside Oklahoma and inside Texas County Location inside Oklahoma and inside Texas County Guymon is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Texas County, Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 11,442, an increase of 6.5 percent from 10,472 in 2000. The 2012 census estimate interval to 11,930. Cattle feedlots, corporate pork farms, and natural gas dominate its economy, with wind energy manufacturing and transmission recently diversifying landowners' farms.
Guymon promotes itself with the slogan, "Queen City of the Panhandle." Guymon, president of the Inter-State Land and Town Company, purchased a section of territory west of the Beaver River, also known as the North Canadian River.
It was retitled Guymon a month later by postal officials to avoid confusion with the town of Stratford, Texas, which was further down the line.
Guymon incorporated in 1901.
Guymon's expansion was helped when most of the businesses moved there from the close-by town of Hardesty.
Quinn quickly retitled as the Guymon Herald.
When Oklahoma became a state in 1907, Guymon claimed 839 residents, and was titled governmental center of county of the newly created Texas County.
A second newspaper, the Guymon Democrat, was in business.
Agriculture became the basis of Guymon's economy.
The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s had a negative effect on Guymon.
However, discernment of the close-by Hugoton-Panhandle gas field created many new jobs, and brought Guymon's populace to 2,290 in 1940. The Guymon Pioneer Days Rodeo has offered tributes to the community's pioneer spirit every May since 1933.
Located on the High Plains of the central Oklahoma Panhandle Guymon sits 122 miles (196 km) north of Amarillo, Texas and 120 miles (193 km) west-northwest of Woodward, Oklahoma.
Guymon is positioned at 36 40 58 N 101 28 54 W (36.6828041,-101.4815493) and sits at an altitude of 3,126 feet (953 m).
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 7.3 square miles (18.9 km2), of which 7.3 square miles (18.9 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2) (0.27%) is water.
Climate data for Guymon, Oklahoma In the city, the populace was spread out with 29.1% under the age of 18, 12.0% from 18 to 24, 30.6% from 25 to 44, 18.3% from 45 to 64, and 10.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
In the 2010 census, Guymon had the fourth biggest Hispanic populace among metros/cities in the state, trailing only Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Lawton. Guymon is a core for the small-town economy, which includes wheat farming, livestock and dairy farming, manufacturing, and petroleum and natural gas production.
The town of Goodwell, Oklahoma, home of Oklahoma Panhandle State University, lies 11 miles (18 km) 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 retitled Memorial Hospital of Texas County) opened in 1949. The city's biggest employer, Seaboard pork refining 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.
The City of Guymon, the Panhandle Telephone Cooperative, and the hospital round out the list of top employers. A boss to harness wind power for electricity generation began a large-scale boom in the Guymon region in 2011.
Guymon has a council-manager form of government, Larry Mitchell is the Interim City Manager (October, 2016). Guymon inhabitants are served by the Guymon School District.
Guymon schools were closed for one year amid the Great Depression because there were insufficient funds to keep them operating.
The town/city has eight elementary schools, one junior high school and one high school, whose team mascot is the Tiger. Douglas Melton, Superintendent, Bret Rider, Asst Superintendent, Dixie Purdy, Asst Superintendent.
Guymon Junior High School Guymon High School Guymon has one journal and three airways broadcasts Guymon Herald printed since 1891 is the only daily journal for the entire Oklahoma Panhandle Sunset Hills golf course an 18-hole par-71 municipal course open to members and guests in Guymon.
Guymon Municipal Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport positioned two nautical miles (3.7 km) west of the central company precinct of Guymon.
Claudia Bryar (1918-2011) - film and tv actress, born in Guymon.
Bush, was born in Guymon in 1951.
Hiner Dale (1881 1968) Oklahoma State Court Judge and founder of Guymon law firm of Wright, Dale, and Jett.
1965) award-winning nature writer, born in Guymon.
Representative, buried in Guymon.
National Register of Historic Places listings in Texas County, Oklahoma a b c d e f Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) details for Guymon, Oklahoma; United States Geological Survey (USGS); December 18, 1979.
"2010 City Population and Housing Occupancy Status".
2012 Enumeration estimates for Guymon; census.gov a b c d e f g h i Larry O'Dell, "Guymon," Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.
"Guymon Pioneer Days Rodeo".
"Historical Weather for Guymon, Oklahoma, United States".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
City of Guymon web page.
"Guymon Public Schools District Home".
Guymon Public Schools District.
"About The Guymon Daily Herald".
Guymon Daily Herald.
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