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 Hook:
41.420207, -73.281954
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 Hook
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 Fairfield County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found fourteen communities that are also named Sandy Hook.
Within Connecticut, the name Sandy Hook is unique.
Beyond Connecticut, we know of fourteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, eleven are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Indiana
Bartholomew County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Sandy Hook [Bartholomew County].
Davies's County
This Sandy Hook is located in Davies's County and lies 762 miles [1,226.3 km]<2> to the west of the Sandy Hook that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davies's County community of Sandy Hook.
Kentucky
Elliott County
This Sandy Hook is located in Elliott County and lies 570 miles [917.3 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Sandy Hook that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Elliott County community of Sandy Hook.
Manitoba
This Sandy Hook lies 1,291 miles [2,077.7 km]<2> to the northwest of the Sandy Hook that is located in Fairfield County.
Maryland
Washington County
This Sandy Hook is located in Washington County and lies 274 miles [441 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Sandy Hook that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Sandy Hook.
Mississippi
Marion County
This Sandy Hook is located in Marion County and lies 1,163 miles [1,871.7 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Sandy Hook that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Sandy Hook.
Missouri
Moniteau County
This Sandy Hook is located in Moniteau County and lies 1,024 miles [1,648 km]<2> to the west of the Sandy Hook that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Moniteau County community of Sandy Hook.
New Jersey
Monmouth County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Sandy Hook [Monmouth County].
Newfoundland and Labrador
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Sandy Hook.
Ontario
This Sandy Hook lies 318 miles [511.8 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Sandy Hook that is located in Fairfield County.
Pennsylvania
Franklin County
This Sandy Hook is located in Franklin County and lies 255 miles [410.4 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Sandy Hook that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Sandy Hook.
Tennessee
Maury County
This Sandy Hook is located in Maury County and lies 857 miles [1,379.2 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Sandy Hook that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Maury County community of Sandy Hook.
Virginia
Goochland County
This Sandy Hook is located in Goochland County and lies 353 miles [568.1 km]<2> to the southwest of the Sandy Hook that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Goochland County community of Sandy Hook.
Wisconsin
Grant County
This Sandy Hook is located in Grant County and lies 891 miles [1,433.9 km]<2> to the west of the Sandy Hook that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grant County community of Sandy Hook.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sandy Hook ...
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 Hook to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sandy Hook and extending to:
Hartford, which is the State Capital of Connecticut, lies 39 miles [62.8 km]<2> to the northeast (NE). If you could walk a straight line from Sandy Hook to Hartford, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take over two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 263 miles [423.3 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 15 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,635 miles [9,068.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,342 miles [10,206.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,218 miles [6,788.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Sandy Hook 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.
<2>
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 from Point A (ie- Sandy Hook) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Hook 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 Hook. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.4202, Longitude: -73.2820
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.432 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.055 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.022 degrees.