 snyder is a city in, and the county seat of, scurry county, texas, united states. the population was 10,653 at the 2010 census. the city is located in the lower part of the southwestern tablelands ecological region. ==history== snyder is named for merchant and buffalo hunter william henry (pete) snyder, who built a trading post on deep creek in 1878. it soon drew fellow hunters and a small settlement grew up around the post. the nature of those early dwellings, mostly constructed of buffalo hide and tree branches, led to the communities first, if unofficial, name of "hide town". another early name, "robber's ro
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