Welcome to Colebrook River ...

So far, we found very little information about Colebrook River. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Colebrook River to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Colebrook River - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Colebrook River, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Colebrook River , we believe that it would have been located within present day Litchfield County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Colebrook River, you might consider that their post office opened in 1827.

A typical abbreviation for Colebrook River: Colebrook Riv.

Time Zone: The area where Colebrook River was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Adding Colebrook River to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Colebrook River in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Colebrook River was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

X2X - From that list, the Colebrook River post office opened in 1827.

We also found Colebrook River in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Colebrook River.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of Connecticut: https://portal.ct.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Colebrook River, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Connecticut's counties, including Litchfield, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/