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Welcome to Big Barren ...

Big Barren is located in Claiborne County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Big Barren, you might consider that their post office opened in 1833.

Big Barren is 1,070 feet [326 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Note: If you travel west from Big Barren (for example, toward Gernt), you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT).

Area Codes for Big Barren: 423 & 729<3>

Communities Also Named Big Barren ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Big Barren - it's located in Nova Scotia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Big Barren.

Communities near Big Barren ...

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

  • Dyers Ferry
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Dyers Ferry is located in Grainger County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyers Ferry
    • Estimated population in 2014: 16,839 people
  • Middlesboro
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Oakland
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Oakland is located in Grainger County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakland
    • Estimated population in 2014: 7,316 people
  • Harrogate
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Beans
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Beans is located in Grainger County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beans
    • Estimated population in 2014: 3,084 people
  • New Tazewell
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Maynardville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Tazewell
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Plainview
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Blaine
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Big Barren ...

Looking for more information about Big Barren? 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 Big Barren, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Big Barren.

Adding Big Barren to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Big Barren 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 (so far) for Big Barren was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Big Barren post office opened in 1833. The Big Barren post office closed in 1903.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Big Barren.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Tennessee's counties, including Claiborne, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Big Barren - 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 423 code has been Overlayed with the 729 area code. New phone numbers in the Big Barren area will be assigned with one of these codes: 423 or 729. As a result, placing a call in the Big Barren 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/