Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Briar Thicket (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Briar Thicket. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Briar Thicket is located in Cocke County .
To see how the shape of Tennessee's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries .
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cocke County : Haywood (NC) , Madison (NC) , Greene , Hamblen , Jefferson & Sevier .
Below are the counties that are near Briar Thicket. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Briar Thicket:
Cocke County (The home county of Briar Thicket)
The following are listed by their distance from Briar Thicket, with the one closest to Briar Thicket listed first.
Bybee (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Parrottsville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Jimtown (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Jimtown is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jimtown Bridgeport (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Bridgeport is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport Jaybird (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Jaybird is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jaybird Estimated population in 2014: 3,299 people
Newport (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Wilsonville (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Wilsonville is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilsonville West Myers (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
West Myers is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Myers Estimated population in 2014: 2,282 people
Clevenger (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Clevenger is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clevenger Estimated population in 2014: 43,182 people
Edwina (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Edwina is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwina Del Rio (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Bailey Town (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Bailey Town is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey Town Estimated population in 2014: 428 people
Claiborne County
The following are listed by their distance from Briar Thicket, with the one closest to Briar Thicket listed first.
Caney Valley (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Caney Valley is located in Claiborne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caney Valley Evans Ferry (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Evans Ferry is located in Claiborne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evans Ferry Population from the 2010 Census: 293 people
Raven Hill (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Raven Hill is located in Claiborne County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raven Hill Grainger County
The following are listed by their distance from Briar Thicket, with the one closest to Briar Thicket listed first.
Marshalls Ferry (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Marshalls Ferry is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshalls Ferry Wyatt Village (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Wyatt Village is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyatt Village Bean Station (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Wa-Ni Village (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Wa-Ni Village is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wa-Ni Village Beans (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Beans is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beans Estimated population in 2014: 3,084 people
Oakland (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Oakland is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakland Estimated population in 2014: 7,316 people
Bowen (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Bowen is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowen Dyers Ferry (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Dyers Ferry is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyers Ferry Estimated population in 2014: 16,839 people
Thorn Hill (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Thorn Hill is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorn Hill Rutledge (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Massengill Mill (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Massengill Mill is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Massengill Mill Estimated population in 2014: 1,600 people
Lulaville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Lulaville is located in Grainger County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lulaville Greene County
The following are listed by their distance from Briar Thicket, with the one closest to Briar Thicket listed first.
Beulah (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Beulah is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beulah Warrensburg (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Warrensburg is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warrensburg Little Chucky ‑ Historic(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Little Chucky is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Chucky Bright Hope (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Bright Hope is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bright Hope Midway (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Sirenburg ‑ Historic(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Sirenburg is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sirenburg Marvin (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Marvin is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marvin Mosheim (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Cedar Creek (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Cedar Creek is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Creek Albany (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Albany is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albany Romeo (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Romeo is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romeo Greeneville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Hamblen County
The following are listed by their distance from Briar Thicket, with the one closest to Briar Thicket listed first.
Silver City (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Silver City is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City East Village (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
East Village is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Village Monte Vista Estates (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Monte Vista Estates is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monte Vista Estates Estimated population in 2014: 2,860 people
Whitesburg (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Morristown (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Bright ‑ Historic(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Bright is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bright Estimated population in 2014: 2,942 people
Casablanca (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Casablanca is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casablanca Estimated population in 2014: 2,223 people
Collons Ferry (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Collons Ferry is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collons Ferry Estimated population in 2014: 986 people
Hancock County
The following are listed by their distance from Briar Thicket, with the one closest to Briar Thicket listed first.
Yount Town (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Yount Town is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yount Town Duck Creek (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Duck Creek is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duck Creek Trent Valley (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Trent Valley is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trent Valley Estimated population in 2014: 4,157 people
Xenophon (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Xenophon is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Xenophon Sneedville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Hawkins County
The following are listed by their distance from Briar Thicket, with the one closest to Briar Thicket listed first.
Bulls Gap (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Red Bridge Ferry (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Red Bridge Ferry is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bridge Ferry Estimated population in 2014: 1,135 people
Mooresburg (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Persia (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Persia is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Persia Galbraith Springs (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Galbraith Springs is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galbraith Springs Mooresburg Springs (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Mooresburg Springs is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mooresburg Springs Population from the 2010 Census: 941 people
Strahl (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Strahl is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strahl Rogersville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Amis (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Amis is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amis Kepler (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Kepler is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kepler Eidson (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Eidson is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eidson Chimneytop ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Chimneytop is located in Hawkins County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chimneytop Jefferson County
The following are listed by their distance from Briar Thicket, with the one closest to Briar Thicket listed first.
Leadvale (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Leadvale is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leadvale White Pine (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Baneberry (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Edna (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Edna is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edna Talbott (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Dandridge (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Rock Town (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Rock Town is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Town Flat Gap (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Flat Gap is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Gap Jefferson City (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Alena ‑ Historic(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Alena is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alena New Market (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Piedmont (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Piedmont is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piedmont Sevier County
The following are listed by their distance from Briar Thicket, with the one closest to Briar Thicket listed first.
East Fork (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
East Fork is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Fork Millican Grove (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Millican Grove is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millican Grove Harrisburg (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Harrisburg is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrisburg Estimated population in 2014: 6,219 people
Catlettsburg (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Catlettsburg is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catlettsburg Pittman Center (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Pittman Center is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittman Center Population from the 2020 Census: 545 people
Henry Crossroads (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Henry Crossroads is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henry Crossroads Sevierville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Kodak (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Middle Creek (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Middle Creek is located in Sevier County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middle Creek Washington County
The following are listed by their distance from Briar Thicket, with the one closest to Briar Thicket listed first.
Limestone (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Mill Brook (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Mill Brook is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Brook Nolichucky ‑ Historic(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Nolichucky is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nolichucky Population from the 2010 Census: 5,861 people
Oakland (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Oakland is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakland Haywood County (NC)
Mount Sterling (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Mount Sterling is located in Haywood County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Sterling Madison County (NC)
The following are listed by their distance from Briar Thicket, with the one closest to Briar Thicket listed first.
Hot Springs (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Allenstand (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Allenstand is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allenstand Bluff (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Bluff is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff Hurricane (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Hurricane is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurricane Lynch ‑ Historic(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Lynch is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynch Stackhouse (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Stackhouse is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stackhouse Cutshalltown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Cutshalltown is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutshalltown Chapel Hill (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Chapel Hill is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel Hill Spring Creek (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Spring Creek is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Creek White Rock (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
White Rock is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Rock Allegheny (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Allegheny is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allegheny Trust (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Trust is located in Madison County (NC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trust
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Briar Thicket, see our County-by-County Page for Briar Thicket .
Cemeteries Near Briar Thicket ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Briar Thicket.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know . If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Briar Thicket - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Briar Thicket covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Briar Thicket, with the one closest to Briar Thicket listed first.
Hale Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Slate Creek Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Wisecarver Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Kesterson Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Luster Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
McCorkel Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Neilson Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Hurley Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Jones Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Jones Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Lyle Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Harneds Chapel Graveyard (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Continue List (880 more) ...
Talley Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Crosby Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Wright Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>
While we didn't find Briar Thicket in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Briar Thicket.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Briar Thicket, with the one closest to Briar Thicket listed first.
Beulah (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Beulah is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beulah Warrensburg (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Warrensburg is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warrensburg Pate Hill (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Pate Hill is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pate Hill Thula (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Thula is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thula Bybee (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Ottinger (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Ottinger is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottinger Rankin (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Rankin is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rankin Leadvale (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Leadvale is located in Jefferson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leadvale Parrottsville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Salem (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Salem is located in Cocke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem Little Chucky ‑ Historic(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Little Chucky is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Chucky Mohawk (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Mohawk is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mohawk Continue List (13 more) ...
Springvale (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Springvale is located in Hamblen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springvale Bright Hope (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Bright Hope is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bright Hope Midway (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Briar Thicket. See our List of 1890's Communities around Briar Thicket .
Newspapers Published in Briar Thicket ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) .
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 41 newspapers that have been published in the area around Briar Thicket.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Briar Thicket, there are papers which were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Briar Thicket.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Briar Thicket:
Websites specific to Tennessee Pages specific to Cocke County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Claiborne County Grainger County Greene County Hamblen County Hancock County Hawkins County Jefferson County Sevier County Washington County Haywood County Madison County Cemetery Information and Directories for Tennessee Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Briar Thicket. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Briar Thicket, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Briar Thicket) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.