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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.

Big Spring within Montgomery County

Population over time

2 figures

Big 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.

YearPeople Change
2010167
2020149-18 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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.

Fires near this place

12 since 2011

Regional 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 May 2018Debris and open burning1.4 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176993-07003-05022018-2205
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined185 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176951-07003-05012018-0850
17 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation178873-03733-04172019-1455
16 April 2011Natural3.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
14 April 2020Debris and open burning4.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation200526-07003-04142020-1935
7 March 2020Debris and open burning9.2 acresMissouri Department of Conservation190311-07003-03072020-2105
24 February 2018Debris and open burning1.9 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176055-07003-02242018-1415
23 February 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution10 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176054-07003-02232018-1845

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 134 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown - Ls-Dm.Limestone, DimensionPast Producer
Unknown - GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown - S&GSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Haberthier-Turner PitClayPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Unknown - ClayClayPast Producer
Big Spring Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fred Weber North Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Americus4.8 miles21
McKittrick5.0 miles22
Starkenburg6.1 miles21
Rhineland6.2 miles21
High Hill7.2 miles20
New Florence7.6 miles20
Mineola7.7 miles21
Danville8.0 miles21

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 SpringAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28131893The 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.