Three Brothers, Arkansas
Three Brothers is an unincorporated community in northwestern Baxter County, Arkansas, United States.[1]
The community is located on Arkansas Route 5 approximately three miles south of the Arkansas-Missouri state line. The site is situated on a ridge three miles northeast of an arm of Bull Shoals Lake and eight miles northwest of Mountain Home.[2]
A post office called Three Brothers was established in 1912, and remained in operation until 1953.[3] The community was named after nearby Three Brothers mountain which lie approximately 1.5 miles to the northwest along Route 5.[4][2]
References
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Three Brothers, Arkansas
- Midway, AR, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1966 (1982 rev.)
- "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
- Moyer, Armond; Moyer, Winifred (1958). The origins of unusual place-names. Keystone Pub. Associates. p. 131.
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