page_title: Enid, Oklahoma
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Enid, Oklahoma / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Garfield Furniture is housed in what used to be the Grand Hotel, where David E. George, who claimed to be John Wilkes Booth, committed suicide in 1903.
context_page_description: Enid is the ninth-largest city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is the county seat of Garfield County. As of the 2010 census, the population was 49,379. 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.
context_section_description: In 2019, the Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce ranked Enid as "The best Oklahoma city in which to live."
  Enid was ranked the 28th best place in the US to raise a family in a 1998 Reader's Digest poll. and in the March 2004 issue of Inc. listed as one of the top 25 small cities in the US for doing business. Good Morning America listed Enid as one of its top five up and coming areas in a January 2006 episode.
  Hollywood has come to Enid, shooting scenes from Dillinger in front of the Mark Price Arena and the Grand Saloon, the 1955 short film Holiday for Bands features Enid's Tri-State Music Festival, and portions of the film The Killer Inside Me were filmed in Enid's downtown square.
  According to television, Enid has been the site of hauntings and exorcisms as  Ghost Lab featured Enid as part of an investigation of sites claimed to be haunted by John Wilkes Booth, and A Current Affair in a segment on expensive religious exorcisms.
  Enid has been the subject of songs, such as the song "Greeted in Enid" by Hank Williams, Jr. from his 1995 album Hog Wild, which tells the story of a woman he met in Enid. It has been the subject of ridicule, by comedian Bill Hicks who used to make fun of this town in his act, including a routine on a man named Elmer Dinkley, most likely fictional.
  Enid is also mentioned in passing in a few popular novels and films. In chapter 12 of The Grapes of Wrath, Enid is one of the towns that feeds into Route 66 from the north via Route 64.
  The movie Twister (1996) references the city just before the chasers leave Aunt Meg's house to chase the "Hailstorm Hill" Tornado. The storm warning on the television broadcast states that the latest warning has been issued "for Garfield County, including the city of Enid". (Subtitles may be needed to find this out.)
  In the 1995 novel, Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, primary character Chloe Steele Williams returns home from California by a flight that lands in Enid to make connections. The Enid Woodring Regional Airport was the only operable airport in the area during the 48 hours after the "vanishings".
  In Stephen King's 2011 novel, 11/22/63, the main character Jake Epping mails a questionnaire to Enid, Oklahoma, to acquire a bachelor's degree after traveling back to 1958.
  In Harry Turtledove's 2016 baseball-themed fantasy novel, The House of Daniel, the early scenes take place in Enid.
  In the television series Night Court, Bull goes on a game show and one of the contestants is a computer programmer from Enid.
  In Jurassic Park III, Paul Kirby mentions that his business is located in Enid, Oklahoma. At the end of the movie, as the survivors look out at a flock of Pteranodons flying free, Alan Grant muses they must be looking for new nesting grounds. Amanda Kirby mutters in response "I dare them to nest in Enid, Oklahoma!"
  During World War II, two Victory Ships from Kaiser's Richmond, California shipyard were named after Enid and Phillips University, the SS Enid Victory and the SS Phillips Victory. In 1999, astronomer Tom Stafford of Oklahoma, named an asteroid after Enid.
  In the CBS series The Big Bang Theory, character Sheldon Cooper contemplates moving to Enid because of its "low crime rate" and "high speed internet" service, but decides against it because the city lacks a model railroad store.' In fact, contrary to Sheldon's claim, Enid hosts the Railroad Museum of Oklahoma.
caption: Garfield Furniture is housed in what used to be the Grand Hotel, where David E. George, who claimed to be John Wilkes Booth, committed suicide in 1903.
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