Big Spring, Missouri
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Loutre Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63363. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pinnacle Lake quadrangle. 149 people lived here at the 2020 count.
Population over time
2 figuresBig Spring fell from 167 to 149 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 167 | |
| 2020 | 149 | -18 (-11%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 printed sheetsMatched 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 Hermann quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS New Florence quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS New Florence quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Saint Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS St. Louis quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Pinnacle Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Fulton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Big Spring between 2011 and 2020, burning about 237 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 May 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.4 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176993-07003-05022018-2205 |
| 1 May 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 185 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176951-07003-05012018-0850 |
| 17 April 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Missouri Department of Conservation | 178873-03733-04172019-1455 |
| 16 April 2011 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | not named |
| 14 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | 4.2 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 200526-07003-04142020-1935 |
| 7 March 2020 | Debris and open burning | 9.2 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 190311-07003-03072020-2105 |
| 24 February 2018 | Debris and open burning | 1.9 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176055-07003-02242018-1415 |
| 23 February 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 acres | Missouri Department of Conservation | 176054-07003-02232018-1845 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 134 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 134 workings within 5 miles of Big Spring: 132 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown - Ls-Dm. | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - S&G | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Haberthier-Turner Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Clay | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Clay | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown - Clay | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Big Spring Quarry & Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Fred Weber North Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unknown - Ls. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Americus | 4.8 miles | 21 | |
| McKittrick | 5.0 miles | 22 | |
| Starkenburg | 6.1 miles | 21 | |
| Rhineland | 6.2 miles | 21 | |
| High Hill | 7.2 miles | 20 | |
| New Florence | 7.6 miles | 20 | |
| Mineola | 7.7 miles | 21 | |
| Danville | 8.0 miles | 21 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Big Spring | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q28131893 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 714213. 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.









