Its importance has greatly increased since the coming of the railway, and in 1910, its population was 2,154. Snyder has had an enterprising citizenship, and 10 years later had an independent school district and four churches, and was an important center for trade. Snyder laid out the town, and two years later, it became the county seat. Other parties moved into the same locality, and that was the beginning of the town of Snyder. Snyder erected a house in Scurry County and began dealing in general merchandise and supplies for buffalo hunters. He used what was known as trail wagons, with seven yoke of oxen to a team, each wagon having a capacity of 50,000 pounds. In 1877, he opened a trading camp in the county, hauling lumber on wagons from Dallas to build his store and also hauling a good portion of his goods from the same place. Snyder, after whom the county seat town was named. Some of the important pioneer facts concerning Scurry County are found in a sketch of W.H. Development has been particularly rapid during the early 1900s. In 1911, the Texico-Coleman division of the Santa Fe system was built through the county, giving it a trunk line of railway. The first railroad was the Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railway, built from Roscoe on the Texas & Pacific in Nolan County, to Snyder, the county seat of Scurry County, about 1909, and subsequently extended to Fluvanna, also in Scurry County. Until 1909, it was without railroad facilities, and the nearest shipping points were Colorado City to the south and still later the railroad towns in Fisher County to the east. It was named for William Read Scurry, lawyer and Confederate Army general. This county, lying directly north of Mitchell County, was created in 1876, and was organized June 28, 1884. Scurry County comprises the Snyder, Texas, micropolitan statistical area.
Scurry County was one of 46 prohibition, or entirely dry, counties in the state of Texas, until a 2006 election approved the sale of beer and wine in Snyder, and a 2008 election approved the sale of liquor by the drink throughout the county. The county was created in 1876 and organized in 1884.
Scurry County is named for Confederate General William Scurry. Its county seat is Snyder, which is the home for Western Texas College. As of the 2020 census, its population was 16,932. Scurry County is a county located in the U.S.
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