Big Spring, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fairmount census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30701. The Survey maps it on the Sonoraville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Big Spring within Gordon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1890 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:125000
1896 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1941 USGS Adairsville quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Adairsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Sonoraville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Cartersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

290 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 290 fires within 5 miles of Big Spring (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 782 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 61 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	176
Arson/incendiarism	61
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Smoking	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020GORDON006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gordon County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Big Spring (historical): 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	R T Dempsey Prospect	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Gordon County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cash	1.0 miles	19
Farmville	2.2 miles	19
Sonoraville	2.4 miles	19
Fambro (historical)	2.5 miles	19
Lewis Corner	2.8 miles	18
Hunts Corner	3.6 miles	18
Redbud	3.8 miles	18
Crane Eater	3.9 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334410. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.