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Colleyville City Directory Collections

Confirmed Colleyville city directory evidence is regional rather than a documented, continuous municipal run. The useful starting points are a digitized Greater Dallas White Pages sample, a later regional business and government sample, and the historical shelves available through Tarrant County institutions. The exact title, publisher, shelf location, and years for a Colleyville-specific printed directory have not been located. Ask for those details before treating any collection as a complete run.

The Texas State Library's city-directory guide points researchers toward print, microform, UNT material, and HeritageQuest through TexShare. Directory runs often skip years. A missing year can be a publication gap, a holdings gap, or an uncataloged volume, so it should be recorded as a gap rather than read as evidence that a family was absent.

Regional Colleyville Directory Scans

The verified April 1985/1986 scan is a useful example of a regional directory page. It contains printed Colleyville entries for the city, local schools, a drugstore, an auto business, and a kennel. The page supplies a publication context, printed name, address wording, and telephone field. It is a static page image, not a sortable database, and the inspected page did not show a residential individual listing.

The digitized Greater Dallas White Pages page preserves the original layout and printed Colleyville entries.

This Colleyville city directory image is best used to capture a source citation and the printed wording, not to infer a private household, present address, or unexplained relationship.

A June 1990/1991 Greater Dallas business and government volume gives a second regional point of comparison. It includes city, school, newspaper, and business listings, including Colleyville News & Times. Neither captured sample establishes a full Colleyville residential directory series. The library or archive should confirm any such volume before it is used for family reconstruction.

Reading a Colleyville City Directory Page

Read the scanned page for only what it actually prints. The examined sample supports a careful inventory, not a standard form imposed on every directory. Some historical directories elsewhere may carry household or occupational detail, but those fields were not visible in the captured Colleyville material. Keeping that distinction matters when a directory line becomes part of a family or property timeline.

Criss-cross directory

An address or street-order arrangement used by some directory publishers. No Colleyville criss-cross volume was verified in the captured material.

Householder index

A name-oriented index that identifies a household or listed person in a volume. A locally verified example was not captured.

Abbreviation key

A volume's own explanation of shorthand. No key was documented on the inspected Colleyville sample, so do not assign meanings from another book.

Colleyville City Directory Library Requests

The Colleyville Library is at 110 Main Street, Colleyville, Texas 76034, and its public number is 817-503-1150. Its digital-resources page identifies a catalog, e-books, e-newspapers, and databases. It does not enumerate exact directory runs, obituary indexes, microfilm, reverse directories, or named genealogy databases. That is a reason to ask a precise question rather than assume a collection is on the shelf.

Request “Colleyville city directories, reverse address directories, Greater Dallas or Fort Worth White Pages, local newspaper archives, obituary indexes, and microfilm.” Include the person, street, community name, or date range. Ask staff to return the title, publisher, year, call number, and whether access requires a library card or an on-site visit. Remote access can vary by library-card eligibility and vendor terms. A detailed request avoids a broad, unanswerable inquiry. A catalog record or staff reply gives the next search a stable citation.

Tarrant Archives for Colleyville Directories

Tarrant County Archives adds records that can explain a directory entry's setting. Its genealogy holdings list historic maps and city directories, marriage records from 1876 to 1901, school census material from 1919 to 1970, early probate abstracts from 1866 to 1959, and selected cemetery records. Those series have different purposes. A school census can support a family timeline, while a map can explain an old community name, but neither turns a directory listing into title evidence.

The Archives reading room is at 200 Taylor Street, Suite 5200, Fort Worth. Walk-in hours are Tuesday through Friday, 9:00 to 4:30; Monday visits are by appointment. The telephone number is 817-884-3272. Ask for the collection or finding aid before a visit, because digitized, indexed, and box-only material have different access paths.

Tarrant County College's Lila Coley Colleyville History Collection provides another local access channel. The collection includes local genealogy and historical-society records, historic newspapers, photographs, and family or community papers, including Colley and Bone family material and Mayor Eudaly material. It can supply a name, street, subdivision, organization, or date lead for a local-history request. It is not a current resident list, and its material should be cited as a collection item rather than treated as a directory entry.

The genealogy holdings page describes the historical material available through the repository.

This Colleyville city directory research image points to the archive's marriage, school, map, probate, and related historical routes, each of which must be dated and read on its own terms.

Colleyville Directory Records Timeline

Directory research sits within an older Tarrant County record system. A short timeline explains why an early household can appear under a county or rural community name instead of a modern municipal label.

1. 1849: Tarrant County was established, creating the county context for older land and court records.
2. March 29, 1876: the Old Courthouse fire destroyed loose pre-fire Commissioners Court papers; later supplied copies may survive.
3. January 10, 1956: Colleyville incorporated. Earlier material may use Spring Garden, Bransford, Pleasant Run, or Pleasant Glade.
4. April 1985/1986: the digitized Greater Dallas White Pages sample provides verified regional Colleyville entries.
5. June 1990/1991: a regional business and government sample supplies another dated Colleyville reference point.

These dates describe sources, not a complete publication timeline. Exact first and last Colleyville city directory years have not been located, and the regional scans should not be treated as a substitute for an identified local run.

Trace Colleyville Directory Households

Use one entry as a lead, then test it against records from nearby years. A directory name and address can identify a research path, but it does not establish ownership, current residence, or a relationship. For modern address-keyed records, the Colleyville street directory keeps the parcel and deed process separate from the historical shelf.

1. Record the directory's full title, year, page, spelling, printed name, and address wording.
2. Look for the same name or address in another dated volume, preserving additions, omissions, and changed street wording.
3. Search the relevant federal census release and compare household composition without forcing a same-name match.
4. Check maps, deeds, school census records, newspapers, or probate only for the question each source can answer.
5. Write the result as a dated source trail, including unresolved conflicts and unverified reverse-directory availability.

A disappearance may reflect a move, an unlisted number, a changed listing style, a coverage gap, or a death. It cannot be diagnosed from one absent line. Consecutive volumes and independent records are what make a historical conclusion stronger.

Colleyville Directory Census Names

The National Archives follows a 72-year census release rule. The 1950 census is available, while the 1960 census is not yet public under that schedule. When a Colleyville city directory search reaches before incorporation, search Tarrant County and the older community names Spring Garden, Bransford, Pleasant Run, and Pleasant Glade. A rural route, a neighboring post-office label, or a subdivision name can appear where a modern researcher expects “Colleyville.”

The National Archives census access page explains the release schedule. Pair its household record with the directory volume year, not simply the closest decade. This keeps a census date, a printed listing date, and a later property event from being blended into one unsupported address claim.

Colleyville Directory History Context

One useful local-history marker is the Bidault House story. The Colleyville Historical Preservation Committee collection describes Anthelm Bidault's 1897 purchase of a 58-acre Glade Road tract for $500 and preserves a Bidault House account. The collection also includes Colleyville: 1855-1956. These materials give a grounded example of how land, names, and place history can intersect.

It is history, not proof that any named person lived at a particular address. The related City of Colleyville collection includes a 1979 community appraisal survey and Colleyville Then and Now from 2006. Use such publications to frame a place or street, then return to dated directory, deed, census, or archival records for individual claims.