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Welcome to Barclaysville ...

Barclaysville is located in Harnett County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Barclaysville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1850.

Barclaysville is 330 feet [101 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Barclaysville lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Barclaysville: 919 & 984<3>

Communities near Barclaysville ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Barclaysville.

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 Barclaysville. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Barclaysville.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Barclaysville. 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 Barclaysville.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Barclaysville. See our Newspapers Page for Barclaysville.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Barclaysville ...

Looking for more information about Barclaysville? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Barclaysville, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Barclaysville.

Adding Barclaysville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Barclaysville in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Barclaysville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Barclaysville post office opened in 1850. The Barclaysville post office closed in 1915.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Barclaysville.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of North Carolina's counties, including Harnett, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Barclaysville - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 919 code has been Overlayed with the 984 area code. New phone numbers in the Barclaysville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 919 or 984. As a result, placing a call in the Barclaysville area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/