Bryan is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Scott County Scott County is the name of eleven counties in the United States of America:
*Scott County, Arkansas
*Scott County, Illinois
*Scott County, Indiana
*Scott County, Iowa, the most populous county on the list
*Scott County, Kansas, the least populous ...
, in the
U.S. state
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of
Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ...
.
History
Bryan, also called "Bryan's Spur", developed along the Arkansas Western Railroad which was built through the area in the early 1900s. A post office called "Bryan Spur" was established in 1915, but closed within that same year.
References
Unincorporated communities in Arkansas
Unincorporated communities in Scott County, Arkansas
Northwest Arkansas
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