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Big Spring Missouri Map

Explore Big Spring, Missouri, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Big Spring, Missouri

How to Use This Big Spring, Missouri Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Big Spring, Missouri. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Missouri or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Big Spring.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Big Spring
State	Missouri (MO)
County	Montgomery County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	38.802543
Longitude	-91.477664
Population	149
Density	17.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	63363, 65041
Area Code	314, 573
County Seat	Montgomery City
School District	Gasconade County R-I School District

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About Big Spring, Missouri

Big Spring is a locality in Montgomery County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 149. The population density is 17.1 people per km². Big Spring is located at 38.8025°N, 91.4777°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 63363, 65041.

Big Spring emerges from the limestone-rich earth where the steady, rhythmic pulse of Mill Creek carves a path through the landscape. It lies 25.5 miles east of Fulton, MO (from Fulton, MO: bearing 97°T), and is situated 7.1 miles north-northwest of Hermann. The terrain surrounding Big Spring rises into modest, wooded elevations that hold the morning mist until well past the hour of dawn, creating a gray, velvet stillness across the fields. To the west, the distant outline of Donahue Ridge sketches a jagged silhouette against the sky, while the deep, verdant canopy of the Daniel Boone Memorial State Forest offers a dense, cool sanctuary just a few miles away. The nearby basin of Possum Hollow collects the seasonal rains, feeding into the soil that supports a quiet transition between the open prairie and the timbered slopes. When the light shifts in late afternoon, the shadows lengthen across the valley floor, turning the earth a bruised, deep violet that feels as ancient as the bedrock beneath the creek.

Generations of settlers established Big Spring by reading the character of the soil and the reliability of the local water sources, building a life defined by agrarian persistence and the slow turning of the seasons. The local economy remains anchored to the rhythms of the land, with small-scale timber harvesting and regional farming providing the primary fiber of the daily experience. Residents often look toward the Daniel Boone Conservation Area as a touchstone for the local ecology, maintaining a stewardship over the woods and streams that define their boundaries. Life in Big Spring moves with the deliberate pace of a ticking clock in a quiet house, unbothered by the frantic expansion found in the distant, larger urban centers. A few miles away, the quiet surface of Thorny Hill Lake catches the reflection of the clouds, providing a mirror to the unchanging sky that has watched over these limestone bluffs for as long as anyone cares to remember.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Daniel Boone Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.4 mi, 108° E
Danville Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.7 mi, 341° N
Katy Trail (State Park) — 5.1 mi, 172° S
Hermann: Germania's Liberator (Public Artwork) — 7.0 mi, 162° S
Clara Eitmann Messmer Amphitheater (Theatre) — 7.2 mi, 161° S
Loutre Lick Access (State Recreation Area) — 7.6 mi, 314° NW
Play Day Farm (Attraction) — 7.7 mi, 052° NE
Graham Cave State Park (State Park) — 8.5 mi, 325° NW
Big Muddy National Fish And Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 10.5 mi, 135° SE · 32k acres
Tate Island (State Recreation Area) — 11.3 mi, 234° SW
Veterans Momorial (Monument) — 17.7 mi, 088° E
Warrior Statue (Monument) — 18.2 mi, 091° E
Memorial Tree (Monument) — 18.2 mi, 088° E
Bluff Overlook (Viewpoint) — 24.7 mi, 243° SW
B. Fishback Museum (Museum) — 25.1 mi, 278° W
Veterans Memorial & Museum (Museum) — 25.9 mi, 277° W
Westminster Women's History Museum (Museum) — 25.9 mi, 277° W
Mark Twain National Forest (National Forest) — 27.8 mi, 263° W · 1.5M acres
Haunted Emmaus Asylum (Attraction) — 28.4 mi, 113° SE
MMTAS Art Gallery (Gallery) — 30.1 mi, 123° SE
Machine Shop Gallery (Gallery) — 30.9 mi, 124° SE
Cote Sans Dessin (Attraction) — 31.6 mi, 242° SW
Welcome to Mexico MO (Attraction) — 32.6 mi, 317° NW
Presser Arts Center (Theatre) — 33.1 mi, 319° NW
Simmons Stables (Museum) — 33.4 mi, 319° NW
Caldwell Franklin County Museum (Museum) — 33.5 mi, 127° SE
Clarence Cannon National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 47.2 mi, 048° NE · 7,659 acres

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