Briggs, Texas

Briggs is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in eastern Burnet County, Texas, United States.

Briggs lies along U.S. Route 183 and FM 2657, northeast of Burnet.

The community prospered in the early 1900s; although major fires and the early effects of the Great Depression seriously impacted the community, it reached its zenith in population of just over five hundred in 1936, from which it has since declined to its present level of an estimated ninety residents.

[5] Firefly Aerospace operates a test and production facility in the community.

The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.