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North Enid is a town in Garfield County that is bordered on the west, south and east by the city of Enid, the county seat.

North Enid began in 1889 as Enid Station on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway in the Cherokee Outlet, and it was the original government-endorsed townsite for the area.

Just before the Cherokee Outlet land run of September 16, 1893, the Department of the Interior moved the official townsite about three miles south, because four Cherokee allottees had taken land at or near the North Enid site.

The move sparked the Enid-Pond Creek Railroad War: the Rock Island refused to stop trains at the new 'South Enid,' the feud turned violent in the summer of 1894, and Congress finally forced the railroad to serve the south town.

During the year-long feud North Enid held roughly 1,500 people, but it shrank to just 205 residents by 1900 and lost its post office in 1923.

North Enid remained a stubbornly independent little farm town of only 100 to 300 people for six decades, even as Enid grew up around it.

North Enid's growth finally came in the 1960s as it developed into a residential area: its population jumped from 286 in 1960 to 730 in 1970 and 992 in 1980.

The 2020 census counted 1,003 North Enid residents, the town's highest official census count, up 16.6 percent from 860 in 2010.

North Enid's 1,003 residents lived in 366 households in 2020, and about two-thirds of those households were married couples.

North Enid covers about 2.3 square miles, bordered by U.S. Highway 64 on the west and State Highway 45 on the north, with the Union Pacific Railway running through it.