Red River City, Texas

In the early 1870s Red River City was a settlement in North Texas, just south of the Red River, which forms the border with the state of Oklahoma. With a population of about 50, it was served by a post office in 1873 and 1874.[1]

In 1873 the Houston and Texas Central Railway line reached Red River City, where it connected with the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad. This junction formed an all-railroad route from the main cities of Texas to St. Louis, Missouri and the Eastern United States.[2] The railway crossed the Red River nearby over the Colbert Bridge, which was also completed in 1873, but destroyed by flooding that same year.[3] The line reopened with the second Colbert Bridge in 1892, but it too was destroyed by flooding in 1908.[4] The route was changed for the third bridge at Carpenters Bluff, which opened in 1910.[5]

Red River City subsequently became part of Denison, Texas in Grayson County.