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Garber is a small city in eastern Garfield County in north-central Oklahoma, about 16 miles east of Enid, the county seat.

Garber's land was part of the Cherokee Outlet until the Land Run of September 1893, when the Garber family claimed 160 acres that would become the townsite.

After the Enid & Tonkawa Railway built through the area in 1899, brothers Milton C. and Burton A. Garber platted the town through their Garber Town Company in October 1899.

The city is named after Martin Garber, father of Milton C. Garber, who went on to serve as a U.S. congressman, mayor of Enid, newspaper editor and judge.

Oil transformed Garber: drilling began as early as 1904-05, the Garber Field opened in 1916 with the Hoy well, and it became one of Oklahoma's most important and consistent oil fields, peaking in production in November 1925.

A well drilled in the Garber Field still held the Oklahoma record for initial production in 1940, at 27,000 barrels per day, and three refineries operated in town by 1929.

Garber was also a wheat town — four grain elevators served local farmers by 1905 — and wheat and cattle remain central to its economy alongside oil.

Garber's population peaked at 1,446 in the 1920 census (an unofficial count put it at 2,200 during the oil boom), declined to a low of 905 in 1960, and stood at 725 in the 2020 census, within a city area of just half a square mile.