Do you know of Big Springs ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Big Springs. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Big Springs.

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Big Springs, so we are uncertain whether Big Springs is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Big Springs would be found somewhere in Madison County, Tennessee.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Big Springs ...

We found 22 communities that share the name Big Springs.

There are five communities within Tennessee that are also named Big Springs.

Beyond Tennessee, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

Communities Located In Tennessee ...
- Blount County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Big Springs [Blount County].
- Dickson County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Big Springs [Dickson County].
- Hancock County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Big Springs [Hancock County].
- Overton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Big Springs [Overton County].
- Rutherford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Big Springs [Rutherford County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Bibb County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Big Springs [Bibb County].
  - Randolph County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Big Springs [Randolph County].
- Arizona
  - Coconino County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Arizona community of Big Springs [Coconino County].
- Arkansas
  - Stone County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Big Springs [Stone County].
- California
  - Siskiyou County
  - Please visit our profile page for the California community of Big Springs [Siskiyou County].
- Georgia
  - Troup County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Big Springs [Troup County].
- Idaho
  - Fremont County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Big Springs [Fremont County].
- Indiana
  - Boone County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Big Springs [Boone County].
- Kansas
  - Douglas County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Big Springs [Douglas County].
- Mississippi
  - Clay County
  - We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Big Springs [Clay County].
- Nebraska
  - Deuel County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Big Springs [Deuel County].
- New Jersey
  - Sussex County
  - Please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Big Springs [Sussex County].
- Ohio
  - Logan County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Big Springs [Logan County].
- South Carolina
  - Chesterfield County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Big Springs [Chesterfield County].
- South Dakota
  - Union County
  - Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Big Springs [Union County].
- Texas
  - Rusk County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Big Springs [Rusk County].
- West Virginia
  - Calhoun County
  - Please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Big Springs [Calhoun County].

More Orphans in Madison County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Madison County.

Footnotes ...

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If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Big Springs could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.