Big Bay, Illinois
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  Big Bay Location within Illinois  Big Bay Location within the United States | |
| Coordinates: 37°19′00″N 88°43′18″W / 37.31667°N 88.72167°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Illinois |
| County | Massac |
| Elevation | 348 ft (106 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 618 |
| GNIS feature ID | 404375[1] |
Big Bay is an unincorporated community in Massac County, Illinois, United States. Big Bay is 11.5 miles (18.5 km) north of Metropolis.
Big Bay is located in a farming community, and its residents were said to raise nearly all their own food well into the 20th century. Big Bay was a significant timber shipping point on the Illinois Central Railroad, but damage from the 1937 flood caused the town to decline. By 1979 it consisted of "barely a dozen houses."[2] Residents successfully pushed for the town to have an exit on Interstate 24 when that highway was built in the 1970s. Big Bay reportedly had a post office briefly in 1835.[3]
References
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Big Bay, Illinois
- ↑ Hubble, Dan (March 18, 1979). "I-24 towns". The Southern Illinoisan. Carbondale, IL. Retrieved July 16, 2026.
- ↑ Gelman, Ben (October 15, 1978). "Columbia and Big Bay Station make the (road) map". The Southern Illinoisan. Carbondale, IL. Retrieved July 16, 2026.
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