Do you know of Briarcliff ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Briarcliff. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Briarcliff.

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Briarcliff, so we are uncertain whether Briarcliff is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Briarcliff would be found somewhere in DeKalb County, Georgia.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Briarcliff ...

We found nineteen communities that share the name Briarcliff.

Within Georgia, the name Briarcliff is unique.

Beyond Georgia, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Lauderdale County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Briarcliff [Lauderdale County].
  - Tuscaloosa County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Briarcliff [Tuscaloosa County].
- Arkansas
  - Baxter County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Briarcliff [Baxter County].
- Louisiana
  - Caddo Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Briarcliff [Caddo Parish].
  - East Baton Rouge Parish
  - Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Briarcliff [East Baton Rouge Parish].
- Mississippi
  - Hinds County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Briarcliff [Hinds County].
- North Carolina
  - Orange County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Briarcliff [Orange County].
  - Randolph County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Briarcliff [Randolph County].
  - Wake County
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Briarcliff [Wake County].
- Ohio
  - Franklin County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Briarcliff [Franklin County].
- Pennsylvania
  - Delaware County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Briarcliff [Delaware County].
- South Carolina
  - Aiken County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Briarcliff [Aiken County].
  - Anderson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Briarcliff [Anderson County].
  - Florence County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Briarcliff [Florence County].
  - Greenwood County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Briarcliff [Greenwood County].
- Tennessee
  - Blount County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Briarcliff [Blount County].
- Texas
  - Travis County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Briarcliff [Travis County].
- Virginia
  - Roanoke County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Briarcliff [Roanoke County].
- Washington
  - King County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Briarcliff [King County].

More Orphans in DeKalb County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in DeKalb County.

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Briarcliff could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.