Colcord Mountain Estates sits off Colcord Road, about 4.5 miles from Highway 260, roughly 6,263 feet up in Gila County pine country. First cabins went up in the early 1960s — today it's still a community that looks after its own roads, history, and each other.
Cattle ranchers, civic leaders — and namesakes.
Colcord Mountain, Colcord Road, and the mountain subdivisions all carry the name of the Colcord family, who arrived in the Arizona Territory with a cattle herd in 1885. Their footprint on this stretch of Gila County shaped the community that's here today.
The Colcord family, the Pleasant Valley era, and how a ranching name became a neighborhood.
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