Brashear is a city in Salt River Township, Adair County, Missouri, United States.

Paulville served as a trading hub for the farms of eastern Adair County, along with several other businesses, one of which was a grist mill.

Sometime during the Civil War, the grist mill was put to the torch to prevent Confederate recruits from being resupplied.

The building of a rail depot at the newly platted town of Brashear caused a very large portion of Paulville's population and business to migrate the short distance south.

Similarly, the Great Depression and post-World War Two mobility of the American public led to many changes.

A few business concerns remain today, but most residents travel west to Kirksville or east to Edina for their shopping and employment.

The community lies on Hog Branch one mile east of the North Fork of the Salt River.

[7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.35 square miles (0.91 km2), all land.

Like many small rural towns, Adair County R-2 school is often the focus of community activity.

Not long after the destruction of the first high school, a northern Missouri legend was born: the annual Brashear Basketball Tournament.

The Brashear Lady Tigers won back-to-back Missouri Class 1A state basketball titles in 2003 and 2004.