Yarbro is around south of the
Missouri border and about north of
Blytheville. A Route 61 overpass across
St. Louis–San Francisco Railway track was built by the
Bureau of Public Roads in 1939, and was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 2022. The nearby
United States Highway 61 Arch is also listed on the Register. The town was first settled in 1885 and was known as "Steal Easy" due to the large cattle population of the town and its proximity to the state border. When a post office opened in the community on March 22, 1900, the town was officially named Yarbro, after a local settler family. By 1912, the town was home to three general merchandise and grocery stores, a post office, a barbershop, a restaurant, a pool hall, a train station, a blacksmith shop, a boarding house, a
stave mill, a
Methodist church, a school, two
gins, and a bank. Home to a two-room schoolhouse, Yarbro became part of the
Blytheville School District in 1942. == References ==