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 Sand Ridge:
35.292968, -93.577296
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 Sand Ridge
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 Logan County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found fourteen communities that are also named Sand Ridge.
Within Arkansas, the name Sand Ridge is unique.
Beyond Arkansas, we know of fourteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Richmond County
This Sand Ridge is located in Richmond County and lies 666 miles [1,071.8 km]<1> to the east of the Sand Ridge that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richmond County community of Sand Ridge.
Illinois
Grundy County
This Sand Ridge is located in Grundy County and lies 509 miles [819.2 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Sand Ridge that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grundy County community of Sand Ridge.
Jackson County
This Sand Ridge is located in Jackson County and lies 284 miles [457.1 km] to the northeast of the Sand Ridge that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Sand Ridge.
Indiana
Spencer County
This Sand Ridge is located in Spencer County and lies 398 miles [640.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Sand Ridge that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Spencer County community of Sand Ridge.
Michigan
Saginaw 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 Michigan community of Sand Ridge [Saginaw County].
New York
Erie County
This Sand Ridge is located in Erie County and lies 960 miles [1,545 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sand Ridge that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Erie County community of Sand Ridge.
Oswego County
This Sand Ridge is located in Oswego County and lies 1,074 miles [1,728.4 km] to the northeast of the Sand Ridge that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oswego County community of Sand Ridge.
Ohio
Athens 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 Ohio community of Sand Ridge [Athens County].
South Carolina
Greenwood County
This Sand Ridge is located in Greenwood County and lies 661 miles [1,063.8 km]<1> to the east of the Sand Ridge that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenwood County community of Sand Ridge.
Horry County
This Sand Ridge is located in Horry County and lies 829 miles [1,334.1 km] to the east of the Sand Ridge that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Horry County community of Sand Ridge.
Tennessee
Henderson County
This Sand Ridge is located in Henderson County and lies 287 miles [461.9 km]<1> to the east of the Sand Ridge that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henderson County community of Sand Ridge.
Texas
Houston County
This Sand Ridge is located in Houston County and lies 313 miles [503.7 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Sand Ridge that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Houston County community of Sand Ridge.
Wharton County
This Sand Ridge is located in Wharton County and lies 434 miles [698.5 km] to the south southwest of the Sand Ridge that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wharton County community of Sand Ridge.
West Virginia
Calhoun County
This Sand Ridge is located in Calhoun County and lies 730 miles [1,174.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Sand Ridge that is located in Logan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calhoun County community of Sand Ridge.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sand Ridge ...
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 Sand Ridge to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sand Ridge and extending to:
Little Rock, which is the State Capital of Arkansas, lies 83 miles [133.6 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Sand Ridge to Little Rock, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 942 miles [1,516 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 37 days and walking would take 54 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,732 miles [10,834.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,465 miles [12,013.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,344 miles [8,600.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sand Ridge) 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Sand Ridge 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>
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.
<5>
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 Sand Ridge 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 Sand Ridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2930, Longitude: -93.5773 In this case, the coordinates for Sand Ridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.078 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.631 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.862 degrees.