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Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about Big Spring came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of Big Spring in various books and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Big Spring. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our Big Spring data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

 

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Big Spring is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for Big Spring. See our Misc Page for Big Spring for more information.

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/