diff --git a/doc/src/Commands_removed.rst b/doc/src/Commands_removed.rst
index 8f5219fe8f..6d7e7619bd 100644
--- a/doc/src/Commands_removed.rst
+++ b/doc/src/Commands_removed.rst
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ with the direct alternative (if available) and print a warning.
 Fix ave/spatial and fix ave/spatial/sphere
 ------------------------------------------
 
+.. deprecated:: 11Dec2015
+
 The fixes ave/spatial and ave/spatial/sphere have been removed from LAMMPS
 since they were superseded by the more general and extensible "chunk
 infrastructure".  Here the system is partitioned in one of many possible
diff --git a/doc/src/fix_ave_spatial.rst b/doc/src/fix_ave_spatial.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..96d87bd8db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/src/fix_ave_spatial.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Fix ave/spatial command
+=======================
+
+.. meta::
+   :http-equiv=Refresh: 5; url='https://docs.lammps.org/Commands_removed.html#fix-ave-spatial-and-fix-ave-spatial-sphere'
+
+.. deprecated:: 11Dec2015
+
+The `fix ave/spatial` command has been superseded by :doc:`fix ave/chunk <fix_ave_chunk>`.
diff --git a/doc/src/fix_ave_spatial_sphere.rst b/doc/src/fix_ave_spatial_sphere.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a3cacc4115
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/src/fix_ave_spatial_sphere.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Fix ave/spatial command
+=======================
+
+.. meta::
+   :http-equiv=Refresh: 5; url='https://docs.lammps.org/Commands_removed.html#fix-ave-spatial-and-fix-ave-spatial-sphere'
+
+.. deprecated:: 11Dec2015
+
+The `fix ave/spatial/sphere` command has been superseded by :doc:`fix ave/chunk <fix_ave_chunk>`.