Green Forest is a city in Carroll County, Arkansas, United States.

Gen. James H. McBride set up camp in and around town, prompting Yankees in November 1863 under Maj. Austin A.

However, the Skirmish of Yocum Creek resulted in the only known casualties between Southern defenders and a Union patrol evacuating northern sympathizers, who were not exactly popular after the Yankees burned down Berryville, too.

In 1901, the St. Louis and North Arkansas Railroad built a rail line connecting Eureka Springs to Harrison.

According to Sumrall's autobiography, the altar call drew quite a response that night, resulting in the founding of today's First Assembly of God.

In 1906, Willis Wood and Will Huttig of Kansas City along with engineer E. S. W. Drought and government assayer H. S. Mohun, drilled a 140-foot well and reported finding gold.

It later became Tanner’s Hardware, the Country Rooster Cafe and now is Grace Baptist Church on the Square.

The destroyed Green Forest train station was patched together with the old depot at Urbanette.

Today's restored Green Forest train station next to the soccer and baseball fields at the city park still has Urbanette markings on the big cargo door.

Green Forest is the birthplace and childhood home of the late Cosmopolitan magazine publisher Helen Gurley Brown.

It is also the birthplace of Baptist missionary David Crockett Graham, who also studied Chinese culture as an anthropologist.