Assisted Living in Enid, OK

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Facts about Enid

Enid is also known as: Garfield County / Enid city.

And some of the notable people born here have been: Thad Luckinbill (actor), Steve Fuller (american football player), Kody Bliss (american football player), Stacy Prammanasudh (golfer), and Lynn Herring (actor).

And featured attractions of Enid: Broadway Tower, Enid Cemetery and Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Phillips University, Enid Beauty College, and Autry Technology Center.

Enid is represented by City Manager Jerald Gilbert.

Enid is a city in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 49,379, making it the ninth largest city in Oklahoma. It is the county seat of Garfield County. Enid was founded during the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in the Land Run of 1893, and is named after Enid, a character in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King. In 1991, the Oklahoma state legislature designated Enid the "Purple Martin Capital of Oklahoma." 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.The economy of Enid is diverse, but its foundation is the oil and gas industry and agriculture.

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