Built in 1853. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
From the record
“Colbert's Ferry was an important Red River crossing between Texas and Indian Territory from about 1853 to 1899. Both the Texas Road and the Butterfield Overland Mail route crossed here.”
Wikipedia article Colbert's Ferry, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 17 National Register listings published here for Bryan County · listed in 1972 · category: Site · built in 1853.
National Register reference number.72001057- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
37 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Colbert's Ferry Site
between 2006 and 2019, burning about 414 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
20
Debris and open burning
8
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Smoking
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
20 workings within 5 miles of Colbert's Ferry Site: 19 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Colbert, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado.
The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
A brief tornado damaged two homes and overturned two trucks on Highway 69. One of the drivers sustained minor injuries while in his truck. Fifteen steel transmission lines were also downed. At least 1000 people were without power due to the damage. Monetary damage estimates were not available.
Thunderstorms during the early afternoon hours on the 24th produced strong winds which blew the roof off a mobile home in Colbert and downed telephone lines in Calera.
Flooding was reported at the Southern Pointe Living Center in Colbert due to heavy rainfall. Event duration was not available. Total damages estimated.
A line of severe thunderstorms along the western border of Oklahoma the evening of the 20th moved slowly eastward across western Oklahoma. The strongest storms persisted into the early morning hours of the 21st and produced up to half-dollar-sized hail and strong winds in southern Oklahoma. In Cotton County 7 miles SE of Devol (just north of the Red River) a tractor-trailer was blown over on Interstate 44, blocking 3 lanes for 2 hours.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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