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 Springs:
35.202896, -81.970941
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 Springs
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 Polk County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found nine communities that are also named Sandy Springs.
There is one other community in North Carolina that is also named Sandy Springs.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Wayne County
This Sandy Springs is located in Wayne County and lies 227 miles [365.3 km]<1> to the east of the Sandy Springs that is located in Polk County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Sandy Springs.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Cherokee County
This Sandy Springs is located in Cherokee County and lies 215 miles [346 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Sandy Springs that is located in Polk County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cherokee County community of Sandy Springs.
Arkansas
Grant 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 Arkansas community of Sandy Springs [Grant County].
Georgia
Fulton County
This Sandy Springs is located in Fulton County and lies 162 miles [260.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Sandy Springs that is located in Polk County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Sandy Springs.
Mississippi
Itawamba County
This Sandy Springs is located in Itawamba County and lies 366 miles [589 km]<1> to the west of the Sandy Springs that is located in Polk County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Itawamba County community of Sandy Springs.
Ohio
Adams County
This Sandy Springs is located in Adams County and lies 246 miles [395.9 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Sandy Springs that is located in Polk County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Adams County community of Sandy Springs.
South Carolina
Anderson County
This Sandy Springs is located in Anderson County and lies 60 miles [96.6 km]<1> to the southwest of the Sandy Springs that is located in Polk County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Sandy Springs.
Kershaw County
This Sandy Springs is located in Kershaw County and lies 99 miles [159.3 km] to the southeast of the Sandy Springs that is located in Polk County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kershaw County community of Sandy Springs.
Tennessee
Robertson County
This Sandy Springs is located in Robertson County and lies 294 miles [473.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Sandy Springs that is located in Polk County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Robertson County community of Sandy Springs.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sandy Springs ...
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 Springs to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sandy Springs and extending to:
Columbus, which is the Seat of Polk County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> to the west northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Sandy Springs to Columbus, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 191 miles [307.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 11 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 372 miles [598.7 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take 6 hours, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 22 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,269 miles [10,089 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,971 miles [11,218.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,850 miles [7,805.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sandy Springs) 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 Sandy Springs 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 Sandy Springs 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 Springs. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2029, Longitude: -81.9709 In this case, the coordinates for Sandy Springs have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.877 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.301 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.955 degrees.