Colcord (Oklahoma)

Delaware County

40-16100

Colcord is an agricultural town in southern Delaware County, Oklahoma in the United States.

Geography

The city is located at Oklahoma State Route 116, about ten kilometers north of U.S. Highway 59 between Springdale and Tulsa. The surrounding area is rural in character and is occupied mostly by fields. To the north lies the forest area around the reservoir Lake Eucha, in the cloud opens Creek, located at the Colcord. The metropolitan area is 6.5 km ². The nearest towns are in southwestern Kansas, about eight kilometers away, and Siloam Springs, just 15 km to the southeast and even in Arkansas. Tulsa is located about 80 kilometers west of Concord.

Population

Colcord counted in the census 2000 819 inhabitants, of which slightly more than 65 % white and 25 % American Indian. The per capita income was $ 10,440, 30 % of the population lived below the poverty line.

History

Colcord began as a small community in the 1920s along the road between Gentry, Arkansas and Kansas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma on Highway 116 The settlement focused on the intersection of a small road leading to the town Row, Oklahoma. Due to better transport routes and a destructive fire which destroyed many shops and livelihoods in Row, many attracted by Row after Colcord order. The post office in Row was eventually moved to Colcord and the new town was authorized to build a high school. A feud between the two cities followed. In just the first eleven years of existence Colcords the school was the subject of eleven lawsuits.

At first, called the growing community of "Little Tulsa ". However, Charles Burbage decided that the original 65 acres was providing land for residential blocks, ground conditions and roads, to name the city after Charles Francis Colcord. Charles Francis Colcord was a successful and prominent rancher, industrialist and lawyer from Oklahoma City, who owned a large ranch in the west of the city. The ranch hired many local residents Colcords, and was very important for the economy and the cohesion of the growing community.

The community organizes every year the Old Settlers Day to honor on the second Saturday in June, its heritage and the many people who settled in the area and founded the city.