Wynnewood, Oklahoma

Wynnewood is a city in Garvin County, Oklahoma. The population of the city is 2,212.
Wynnewood 	Oklahoma
Incorporated 	1897
County 	Garvin
Population 	2,212
Elevation 	902 ft (275 m)
Mayor 	Zachary Moss
City Guildmaster	Reuben Ryan
ZIP code 	73098
== Demographics ==
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of the city is:
76.94% White (1,702)
7.96% Black or African American (176)
7.69% Other (170)
7.41% Native American (164)
18.0% (398) of Wynnewood residents live below the poverty line.
== Theft rate statistics ==
Wynnewood has low to below average rates of Pokemon theft and murder. The city reported 2 Pokemon thefts in 2018, and averages 0.86 murders a year.
== Pokemon ==
See the Garvin County page for more info.
== Fun facts ==
* Wynnewood quickly became a market town for the surrounding area. In 1887, Presbyterian missionary Mary Semple Hotchkins moved her school for Chickasaw children from Cherokee Town to Wynnewood. In 1901, local citizens paid for building Indianola College. A promotional brochure published in 1907 called Wynnewood "the Queen City of the Famous Washita Valley." It could soon boast of having an opera house, electric lights, telephones, and the thirty-room Eskridge Hotel.
* For many years, the local economy was based on agriculture. Principal crops in the early 20th century included pecans, peaches, corn, wheat, oats, alfalfa, cotton and clover. A cottonseed oil company and four cotton gins supported the cotton industry. The local petroleum industry blossomed in Garvin County during the second decade of the 20th century. The Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company built an oil refinery in Wynnewood during 1922-23. Kerr-McGee Company bought the refinery in 1950. By 1957, employment at the refinery was about equal to all other employment in the Wynnewood vicinity. The Gary-Williams Energy Corporation bought the facility in 1995. In 2012, noted investor Carl Icahn announced that he had bought a controlling interest in CVR industries, which owned the 70,000 barrel per day refinery (BPD) at Wynnewood and a 115,000 BPD refinery at Coffeyville, Kansas. The Wynnewood refinery was one of only five operating in Oklahoma as of 2015.
* Wynnewood has very little to offer in the way of amenities. It has dollar stores, a Sonic Drive-In, Subway, a few local restaurants and businesses, a landing strip, a sports complex, a few public battle fields, and that's about it.
* One source says that as of August 2016, Wynnewood has had 175 tornadoes since 1950.
Category:Oklahoma Cities