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History · Brushy

Brushy’s post office opened in 1900

Most of Brushy was built recently: 0.3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1989. Below: maps from 1898 on and the census since 2000.

1900first post office
0on the National Register
0.3%homes built before 1940
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How Brushy began

When was Brushy founded?

1900

The Brushy post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 787 in 20002020 census: 811126 years
Founding year: the first Brushy post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Brushy’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Brushy are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18983 editions of the USGS map, 1898 to 1973. Watch Brushy change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Brushy’s history is told.

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On the map

Brushy on the map, 1898 to 1973

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Brushy. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Brushy on the 1898 USGS mapBrushy on the 1901 USGS mapBrushy on the 1973 USGS map1898Tahlequah sheet · 1:125,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Brushy.

The story so far

Brushy, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Brushy yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Brushy is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States, along U.S. Route 59 in the foothills of the Brushy Mountains. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Brushy had a population of 811.

Its first post office opened in 1900. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 900 to 811 (-10%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Brushy, 1898 to 1910

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1898On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  3. 20th century
  4. 1900Post officeThe Brushy post office opens
  5. 1910Post officeThe Brushy post office closes
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No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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People over time

Brushy, census by census

02004006008001,00020002020Peak: 900

Between 787 and 900 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Brushy’s Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Brushy had its own post office from 1900 to 1910.

Brushy
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19001960today
Gone or out of use
Barry Dotson Ranch Airportairport
1cemetery inside Brushy
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Stoney PointIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAkins1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMarble CityIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Brushy’s history

What year was Brushy founded?

The Brushy post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.