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Welcome to Sand Springs ...

Sand Springs is located in the Missouri Ozarks.

Sand Springs is located in Webster County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Sand Springs, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1863.

A typical abbreviation for Sand Springs: Sand Spgs. (or less commonly used: Sand Spngs. or Sand Sprngs.)

Time Zone: Sand Springs lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Sand Springs: 417

Communities Also Named Sand Springs ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 12 communities that are also named Sand Springs - they are located in Arizona (2), Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky (2), Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Sand Springs.

Adding Sand Springs to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Sand Springs in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Sand Springs was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Sand Springs post office opened in 1863.

We also found Sand Springs in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Sand Springs.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Webster, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/