Snyder is a town in, and the county seat of Scurry County, Texas, United States. The population was 11,202 at the 2010 census. The city is located in the belittle part of the Southwestern Tablelands ecological region.

Snyder is named for merchant and buffalo hunter William Henry (Pete) Snyder, who built a trading post upon Deep Creek in 1878. It soon drew fellow hunters, and a little settlement grew up around the post. The natural world of those in the future dwellings, mostly build up of buffalo hide and tree branches, led to the community’s first, if unofficial, name of “Hide Town”. Another before name, “Robber’s Roost”, is said to owe its beginnings to the sometimes nefarious flora and fauna of a few residents and a dearth of statute enforcement. A statue of an albino buffalo upon the grounds of the Scurry County Courthouse in Snyder pays homage to the town’s beginnings as a buffalo-trading post.

Snyder antedates Scurry County by two years, with a town point being drawn going on in 1882, while the county was not organized until 1884. A population of 600 was reported in 1892, with a school, two churches, a grist mill, steam gin, two banks, and two weekly newspapers being allowance of the community. Significant alter happened in 1907 behind Snyder was granted a city charter, and construction began upon the Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railway. The 1910 census indicated Snyder had grown to a population of 2,514. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway tracks reached Snyder in 1911, spurring other growth. Ranching and farming were the primary economic backbone of Snyder through the first half of the 20th century.

This distorted in 1948, when oil was discovered in the Canyon Reef Place north of town. Snyder became a boomtown, as the population jumped to roughly 12,000 in just a year’s time. By the period the boom over and done with in 1951, an estimated pinnacle population of 16,000 had been reached. This soon decreased to the 10,000 to 11,000 level and stabilized. Although the boom was over, oil still remained a indispensable part of the local economy, with the Snyder area being one of the leading oil-producing areas in Texas. In 1973, the one-billionth barrel of oil was pumped from the understandable oil fields.