Big Spring
Big Spring is one of the largest springs in the United States and the world. An enormous first magnitude spring, it rises at the base of a bluff on the west side of the Current River valley in the Missouri Ozarks.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hillbilly2008, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Van Buren and Eastwood.
Van Buren
Photo: BrineStans, CC BY 4.0.
Van Buren is a city in and county seat of Carter County, Missouri, United States, that is the largest city in Carter County. Van Buren was founded in 1833 as the county seat of Ripley County and was named after then Vice President of the United States, Martin Van Buren.
Eastwood
Hamlet
Eastwood is an unincorporated community in southwestern Carter County, in the Ozarks of southeast Missouri. The community lies within the Mark Twain National Forest, approximately seven miles south of Van Buren, at the intersection of Routes C and F. Eastwood is situated 4½ miles southwest of Big Spring.
Big Spring
- Type: Spring
- Description: Spring in Missouri
- Category: body of water
- Location: Carter, Missouri, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.95219° or 36° 57′ 8″ northLongitude
-90.99432° or 90° 59′ 40″ westElevation
469 feet (143 metres)Open location code
868FX224+V7OpenStreetMap ID
node 5442671644OpenStreetMap feature
natural=spring
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Big Spring” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Big Spring”
- German: “Big Spring”
- Greek: “Μπιγκ Σπρινγκ”
- Japanese: “ビッグ・スプリング”
- Persian: “بیگاسپرینگ”
- Serbian: “Биг Спринг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Big Spring, Missouri”
- Spanish: “Big Spring”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Big Spring”. Photo: Hillbilly2008, Public domain.