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is a small farming town in southern Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States. The community lies in the northeastern part of the state in a region known as Green Country. At the 2000 census, the population was 819.
Colcord began in the 1920s as a small community along the road between Gentry, Arkansas and Kansas, Oklahoma, now OK Highway 116. The settlement centered on the juncture there of a small road connecting the then-healthy town of Row, Oklahoma. Due to better transportation, better highways, and a disastrous fire that wiped out many Row businesses, most of the Row community moved to Colcord. The Row post office was eventually moved to Colcord and the new town was approved to build a high school. A feud between the two towns ensued, and in the first eleven years of Colcord's existence, the school was involved in eleven law suits.
The first name for the growing community was "Little Tulsa." However, Charles Burbage, who set aside the original for blocks, lots and streets, decided to name the town after Charles Francis Colcord. Mr. Colcord was a successful and prominent cattle rancher, oil businessman, and early Oklahoma Territory lawman from Oklahoma City, who owned a large ranch west of town. The ranch employed many local residents, and was very important to the economy and spirit of the growing community.
The community hosts a parade called "Old Settlers Day" the second Saturday in June each year to honor its heritage and the many people that settled in the area and established the town.