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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Sandy Hill, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Sandy Hill and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • 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 Hill:
    • 42.154260, -72.606478
    • 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.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Sandy Hill
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Waymark.com

Communities Also Named Sandy Hill ...

We found thirteen communities that share the name Sandy Hill.

Within Massachusetts, the name Sandy Hill is unique.

Beyond Massachusetts, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, eleven are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Coffee 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 Georgia community of Sandy Hill [Coffee County].
      • Wilkes County
      • This Sandy Hill is located in Wilkes County and lies 792 miles [1,274.6 km]<2> to the southwest of the Sandy Hill that is located in Hampden County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wilkes County community of Sandy Hill.
    • Louisiana
      • Vernon Parish
      • This Sandy Hill is located in Vernon Parish and lies 1,371 miles [2,206.4 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Sandy Hill that is located in Hampden County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Vernon Parish community of Sandy Hill.
    • Maryland
      • Howard County
      • This Sandy Hill is located in Howard County and lies 300 miles [482.8 km]<2> to the southwest of the Sandy Hill that is located in Hampden County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Howard County community of Sandy Hill.
    • New York
      • Washington 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 York community of Sandy Hill [Washington County].
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
      • This community is historic<1> and we have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for Sandy Hill.
    • North Carolina
      • Brunswick County
      • This Sandy Hill is located in Brunswick County and lies 642 miles [1,033.2 km]<2> to the south southwest of the Sandy Hill that is located in Hampden County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brunswick County community of Sandy Hill.
    • Ohio
      • Delaware County
      • This Sandy Hill is located in Delaware County and lies 562 miles [904.5 km]<2> to the west of the Sandy Hill that is located in Hampden County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Delaware County community of Sandy Hill.
    • Ontario
      • This Sandy Hill lies 272 miles [437.7 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Sandy Hill that is located in Hampden County.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Fayette County
      • This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Sandy Hill [Fayette County].
      • Montgomery 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 Pennsylvania community of Sandy Hill [Montgomery County].
      • Perry 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 Pennsylvania community of Sandy Hill [Perry County].
    • Texas
      • Washington County
      • This Sandy Hill is located in Washington County and lies 1,547 miles [2,489.7 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Sandy Hill that is located in Hampden County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Sandy Hill.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Sandy Hill ...

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.

  • Cayenne
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cayenne have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cayenne
    • Cayenne is located in Hampden County
  • Chicopee
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chicopee
    • Chicopee is located in Hampden County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 54,825 people
  • Forest Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forest Park have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Park
    • Forest Park is located in Hampden County
  • Freeman Knoll
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Freeman Knoll have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeman Knoll
    • Freeman Knoll is located in Hampden County
  • Indian Orchard
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Orchard
    • Indian Orchard is located in Hampden County
  • Liberty Heights
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Liberty Heights have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Heights
    • Liberty Heights is located in Hampden County
  • Pine Point
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pine Point have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Point
    • Pine Point is located in Hampden County
  • Plainville ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plainville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainville
    • Plainville is located in Hampden County
  • Rock Valley
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rock Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Valley
    • Rock Valley is located in Hampden County

How Far From Sandy Hill to ...

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 Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sandy Hill and extending to:

  • Springfield, which is the Seat of Hampden County, lies just to the South Southeast.
  • Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies 80 miles [128.7 km]<2> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Sandy Hill to Boston, with an average speed<5>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 323 miles [519.8 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 19 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,577 miles [8,975.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,286 miles [10,116.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,162 miles [6,698.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Sandy Hill. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Massachusetts: https://www.mass.gov/

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 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 Hill 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 '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- Sandy Hill) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sandy Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.1543, Longitude: -72.6065       In this case, the coordinates for Sandy Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<3>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Sandy Hill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>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.
<6>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 Hill to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.933 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.615 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.37 degrees.




 

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