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Welcome to Briggs ...So far, we found very little information about Briggs. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Briggs to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Briggs, please Contact Us. Briggs would have been located within present day Unicoi County<2>. The location of Briggs has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Briggs, you might consider that their post office opened in 1886. While the community is gone, the present day location for Briggs is 2,740 feet [835 m] above sea level.<4> In other words, the altitude of Briggs is about ½ mile above sea level. Time Zone: The area where Briggs was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time If Briggs still existed, it would have been in the (423) area code. Websites for Briggs ...Chamber of Commerce: www.unicoicounty.org/ Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Briggs, the following might be of interest: Communities Also Named Briggs ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Tennessee communities named Briggs: This one is located in Unicoi County and the other is located in Humphreys County. Beyond Tennessee, there are 21 communities that are also named Briggs - they are located in Arizona (2), California (2), Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Ohio (2), Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas (2), Utah and Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Briggs. Communities near Briggs ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Briggs.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Briggs. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Briggs. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Briggs. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Briggs. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Briggs. See our Newspapers Page for Briggs. Adding Briggs to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Briggs in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Briggs was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Briggs on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Tennessee (1888). For more details, see References and Mentions for Briggs. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/ Footnotes ...
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