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Brushy

Ghost town · Ashley County, Arkansas

Crossett North quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000)
Crossett North quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Brushy is a ghost town in Ashley County, Arkansas. It is one of 5 former communities in Ashley County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 59th among the 74 Arkansas counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Brushy as a historical populated place on the Crossett North topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 33.1801° N, 91.9668° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCrossett North
Elevation111 ft
Nearest living townNorth Crossett, AR
Distance to it2.1 miles
GNIS feature ID62382
Coordinates33.18012, -91.96680

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Brushy today, aerial view
Crossett North quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000)

Left: Crossett North quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1973, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Brushy is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is North Crossett, AR (population 2,583), about 2.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 111 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Brushy?

Brushy is in Ashley County, Arkansas, at 33.1801, -91.9668.

How many ghost towns are in Ashley County?

Ashley County, Arkansas has 5 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.