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Welcome to Big Spring ...So far, we found very little information about Big Spring. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Big Spring to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Big Spring, please Contact Us. Big Spring would have been located within present day Marshall County<2>. The location of Big Spring has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Big Spring, you might consider that their post office opened in 1844. A typical abbreviation for Big Spring: Big Spg. (or less commonly used: Big Spng. or Big Sprng.) While the community is gone, the present day location for Big Spring is 670 feet [204 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Big Spring was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Big Spring (for example, toward Taliaferro (GA)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). Big Spring would have been located in the (256) & (938)<5> area codes. Communities Also Named Big Spring ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 21 communities that are also named Big Spring - they are located in Georgia (3), Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland (2), Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania (3), Tennessee (3), Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Big Spring. Communities near Big Spring ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Big Spring.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Big Spring. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Big Spring. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Big Spring. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Big Spring. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Big Spring. See our Newspapers Page for Big Spring. Adding Big Spring to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Big Spring in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Big Spring was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Big Spring in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846). For more details, see References and Mentions for Big Spring. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Marshall County: www.marshallco.org/www/ The official website for State of Alabama: https://www.alabama.gov/ Footnotes ...
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