1973 Map of Brushy

About this map

The Home of Sequoyah stands as a central historical landmark in this region of Sequoyah County, situated just north of the Akins settlement. The landscape is defined by the prominent Brushy Mountains and Rocky Mountain, which separate the northern drainages like Dry Creek and Brushy Creek from the expansive southern lowlands near Prices Chapel. Local community life in the early 1970s is evidenced by numerous civic and religious sites, including the Brushy Sch, Rocky Point Ch, and the Sequoyah Cem. The map reveals a network of hollows such as Polecat Hollow and Mud Spring Hollow that feed into larger water bodies like Brushy Lake and the meandering Big Skin Bayou, illustrating the traditional Ozark plateau settlement patterns where homes and roads followed the narrow valley floors between steep ridges like Long Ridge.