Three Brothers 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 northwestern

Baxter County, Arkansas Baxter County is a County (United States), county in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. Created as Arkansas's 66th county on March 24, 1873, the county has eight incorporated municipalities, including Mountain Home, Arkansas, Mountain Home, its ...

, United States. The community is located on

Arkansas Highway 5 Arkansas Highway 5 (AR 5) is a designation for three List of state highways in Arkansas, state highways in Arkansas. The southern segment of runs from U.S. Route 70 in Arkansas, U.S. Route 70 (US 70) east of Hot Springs, Arkansas, Hot Springs ...

approximately three miles south of the Arkansas–

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state line. The site is situated on a ridge three miles northeast of an arm of

Bull Shoals Lake Bull Shoals Lake is an artificial lake or reservoir in the Ozark Mountains of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, United States. It has hundreds of miles of lake arms and coves, and common activities include boating, water sports, swimming, ...

and eight miles northwest of Mountain Home.''Midway, AR,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1966 (1982 rev.) The community was formerly known as Vin, and was once a thriving community with a newspaper, ''The Ozark Clarion''. A post office called Three Brothers was established in 1912, and remained in operation until 1953. The community was named after nearby Three Brothers mountain which lie approximately 1.5 miles to the northwest along Route 5.

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Unincorporated communities in Baxter County, Arkansas Unincorporated communities in Arkansas {{BaxterCountyAR-geo-stub