Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Sandy Point:
31.792108, -85.269935
Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Sandy Point
Bird Watching ...
We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Barbour County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found seventeen communities that are also named Sandy Point.
Within Alabama, the name Sandy Point is unique.
Beyond Alabama, we know of seventeen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Connecticut
New London County
This Sandy Point is located in New London County and lies 978 miles [1,573.9 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sandy Point that is located in Barbour County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New London County community of Sandy Point.
Florida
Suwannee County
This Sandy Point is located in Suwannee County and lies 192 miles [309 km]<1> to the southeast of the Sandy Point that is located in Barbour County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Suwannee County community of Sandy Point.
Georgia
Crawford County
This Sandy Point is located in Crawford County and lies 102 miles [164.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sandy Point that is located in Barbour County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Crawford County community of Sandy Point.
Maine
Waldo County
This Sandy Point is located in Waldo County and lies 1,248 miles [2,008.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sandy Point that is located in Barbour County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Waldo County community of Sandy Point.
Maryland
Wicomico County
This Sandy Point is located in Wicomico County and lies 705 miles [1,134.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sandy Point that is located in Barbour County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wicomico County community of Sandy Point.
New Jersey
Ocean County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Sandy Point [Ocean County].
Newfoundland and Labrador
This Sandy Point lies 1,806 miles [2,906.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sandy Point that is located in Barbour County.
Nova Scotia
This Sandy Point lies 1,358 miles [2,185.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sandy Point that is located in Barbour County.
Ontario
This Sandy Point lies 945 miles [1,520.8 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Sandy Point that is located in Barbour County.
Pennsylvania
Butler County
This Sandy Point is located in Butler County and lies 715 miles [1,150.7 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Sandy Point that is located in Barbour County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butler County community of Sandy Point.
Rhode Island
Kent County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Sandy Point [Kent County].
Washington County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Rhode Island community of Sandy Point [Washington County].
Tennessee
Benton County
This Sandy Point is located in Benton County and lies 337 miles [542.3 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Sandy Point that is located in Barbour County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Benton County community of Sandy Point.
Texas
Brazoria County
This Sandy Point is located in Brazoria County and lies 629 miles [1,012.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Sandy Point that is located in Barbour County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brazoria County community of Sandy Point.
Virginia
Northumberland County
This Sandy Point is located in Northumberland County and lies 656 miles [1,055.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sandy Point that is located in Barbour County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Northumberland County community of Sandy Point.
Westmoreland County
This Sandy Point is located in Westmoreland County and lies 656 miles [1,055.7 km] to the northeast of the Sandy Point that is located in Barbour County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Westmoreland County community of Sandy Point.
Washington
Island County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Sandy Point [Island County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sandy Point ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Sandy Point to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sandy Point and extending to:
Clayton, which is the Seat of Barbour County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the west northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Sandy Point to Clayton, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Montgomery, which is the State Capital of Alabama, lies 72 miles [115.9 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 4 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 674 miles [1,084.7 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 27 days and walking would take 39 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,568 miles [10,570.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,265 miles [11,691.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,145 miles [8,280.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sandy Point) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.
Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.
Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.
Also keep in mind that Sandy Point could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<3>
While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<4>
The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Sandy Point to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sandy Point. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.7921, Longitude: -85.2699 In this case, the coordinates for Sandy Point have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.662 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.876 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.068 degrees.