Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Wynnewood, OK

Wynnewood is a city in Garvin County that began in 1886 as a village called "Walner" in the Chickasaw Nation of Indian Territory, on the proposed route of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway.

Railroad workers from Pennsylvania renamed the community for Wynnewood, a community outside Philadelphia, and the new name became official on April 6, 1887.

In 1887, Presbyterian missionary Mary Semple Hotchkins moved her school for Chickasaw children from Cherokee Town to Wynnewood.

A promotional brochure published in 1907 called Wynnewood "the Queen City of the Famous Washita Valley," and by then it boasted an opera house, electric lights, telephones, and the thirty-room Eskridge Hotel.

The Eskridge Hotel operated until 1970, and in 1973 the Wynnewood Historical Society bought the three-story building and converted it into a museum of local history; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

The Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company built an oil refinery in Wynnewood in 1922-23, and Kerr-McGee bought the refinery in 1950.

The Wynnewood refinery, now owned by CVR Energy, can process about 70,000 barrels of oil per day and was one of only five operating refineries in Oklahoma as of 2015.

Wynnewood had 1,927 residents at the 2020 census, down from its peak population of 2,615 in 1980.

Wynnewood had 789 households in the 2020 census, and about 59% of its occupied homes were owner-occupied.

The Washita River, a tributary of the Red River, runs just west of Wynnewood, and the city covers about 1.5 square miles in southeastern Garvin County.