History
When a Civil War in the United States, Congress wanted to stimulate a economy & help a incubation of the united states. A large way that it achieved this was to promote a building of the american railroads. Upon completion of the Union Pacific-Central Pacific joining together in 1869 with the Golden Spike, other railroads trying to capitalize in commerce & trade besides began crossing a american united states. This involved a Great Northern and Burlington in a far north, the Southern Pacific on the extreme southern border.

Finally this would lead to rails crossing Indian Territory, present day Oklahoma, around a turn of a millennium from either the 1800’s to the 1900’s. The recently railway line was extended from either Weatherford, Oklahoma, to Texola, Oklahoma, by McCabe & Steen Contractors, in July of 1901. Entrepreneurs would buy l& touching were the newly tracks in which existence placed, and too touching a source of fluids. A Choctaw Town places & Improvement Company did this, & while a railroad crossed a Northerly Fork of the Red River in Western Indian Territory an instant town rise, in 14 September 1901.

A Choctaw Townsite & Improvement Company began selling lots to new “Sooners� arriving to start a new life. A seeds of recently town were in, business community come to sell their wares to a recently town folk, & inside of these month the town’s people was as much as about 1,000. the main engineer, & a shareholder, for the railroad gave his title to the new formed town, Robert Heysham Sayre, of Pennsylvania.

The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company (called CRI&P), later just the “Rock Island� or Rock Island Line, leased the new line. A Rock Island would complete their march to the Pacific by filling in the line to Tucumcari, New Mexico.

In the 1930’s Route 66, a dream forwarded by fellow Oklahoman Cyrus Avery, would are to Sayre, cementing a town’s fate to fuel a cars & feed a population researching a united states.

Within 1940 director John Ford would use Sayre’s Beckham County Courthouse in the film The Grapes of Wrath, based on a renowned book by writer John Steinbeck.

When you took a 1970's Sayre & a surronding metropolitan area would profit from either a natural gas and oil development in a Panhandle-Hugoton field, the big-volume flatulence field in the United States, & the world’s largest known source of helium. Between 1973 & 1993 a field produced across 8-tillion three-dimensional feet (230,000,000 m³) of barking spiders.

1 famed boy of Sayre is balloonist Maxie Anderson. Natural inside Sayre, in a period of the height of the Great Depression, 10 September 1934, Anderson along with Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman were a number 1 population to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a balloon, a Double Eagle II, in 1978.

Geography
Sayre is placed at 35°17'56" North, 99°38'12" West (35.298940, -99.636556). These are placed on the Northerly Fork of the Red River. A locality is dominated by on line-rolling red clay hills.

Based on data from a United States Census Bureau, the city has the number region of Viii.Octad km² (3.4 mi²). Eighter from decatur.Octad kilometer² (Three.Four mi²) of these are l& and Zero.29% is a lake.

Demographics
When of the censusof 2000, there are 4,114 people, 1,132 family, & 678 families living in the city. A population density is 469.9/km² (1,215.9/mi²). There are 1,399 housing units at an typical density of 159.8/km² (413.5/mi²). A racial makeup of the city is 74.99% White, 18.25% African American, 2.53% Native American, 0.41% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 1.92% from other races, and 1.90% from two or more races. Fin.35% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 1,132 family away from which Twenty-six.7% stand youngsters under a age of Xviii swallow the babies, 45.8% come married couples living together, 10.6% have a female homeowner by using there is no hubby present, & Xl.1% come non-families. 36.5% of tons house come processed higher of souls & Xviii.9% stand somebody residing alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical house size is Ii.Xx & a typical personal size is Ii.87.

In a city the people is spread retired by using Xiv.6% under a age of Eighteen, Xiv.0% from either 18 to Two dozen, Forty.9% from either 25 to 44, Xvi.0% from either 45 to 64, & Fourteen.5% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is 35 years. For each Centred females there are 197.Zero males. For each Century females age Xviii & ended, there are 216.Octad males.

the median income for a menage in the city is $21,713, & the median income for a personal is $30,000. Males have a median income of $22,167 versus $18,147 for females. A per capita income for the city is $10,378. Xx.7% of the people & Xv.9% of families come beneath a poverty line. Away from a aggregate people, Xxvi.1% of people under a age of 18 & 14.0% of people 65 & older come dwelling following a poverty level.