Hildebrand Mill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Hildebrand Mill on Flint Creek in Colcord, Delaware County, Oklahoma was built c. 1845 and served hill people of the Old Cherokee Nation territory for more than 125 years. It is located not far from Siloam Springs, Arkansas.”
Wikipedia article Hildebrand Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Delaware County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10 mi. W of Siloam Springs, Siloam Springs, 74338
When was it listed? October 1972
Category. building
Census division. Colcord
National Register reference number. 72001062 - 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

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Hildebrand Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,052 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 62 were 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
Arson/incendiarism	62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Debris and open burning	37
Natural	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	7.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
8 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	18 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
14 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
10 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	8.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
9 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
29 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named
28 August 2000	Smoking	13 acres	Oklahoma Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Delaware County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hildebrand Mill: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Platinum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Woodruff Farm	Uranium, Platinum	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Delaware County

Map coverage status

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72001062 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Delaware County	All 6 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

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.