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 Beach:
43.056445, -78.959763
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.
We found fourteen communities that share the name Sandy Beach.
Within New York, the name Sandy Beach is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, nine are located in the United States and seven are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alberta
We haven't found the location of this community yet.
Connecticut
Litchfield County
This Sandy Beach is located in Litchfield County and lies 307 miles [494.1 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Sandy Beach that is located in Erie County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Litchfield County community of Sandy Beach.
Delaware
Sussex County
This Sandy Beach is located in Sussex County and lies 364 miles [585.8 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Sandy Beach that is located in Erie County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sussex County community of Sandy Beach.
Indiana
Carroll County
This Sandy Beach is located in Carroll County and lies 433 miles [696.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Sandy Beach that is located in Erie County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Sandy Beach.
Maine
Penobscot County
This Sandy Beach is located in Penobscot County and lies 520 miles [836.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Sandy Beach that is located in Erie County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Penobscot County community of Sandy Beach.
Massachusetts
Norfolk 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 Massachusetts community of Sandy Beach [Norfolk County].
Worcester County
This Sandy Beach is located in Worcester County and lies 359 miles [577.8 km]<1> to the east of the Sandy Beach that is located in Erie County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Worcester County community of Sandy Beach.
Michigan
Cass County
This Sandy Beach is located in Cass County and lies 374 miles [601.9 km]<1> to the west of the Sandy Beach that is located in Erie County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cass County community of Sandy Beach.
Saint Joseph County
This Sandy Beach is located in Saint Joseph County and lies 345 miles [555.2 km] to the west southwest of the Sandy Beach that is located in Erie County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Joseph County community of Sandy Beach.
Newfoundland and Labrador
This Sandy Beach lies 1,280 miles [2,060 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Sandy Beach that is located in Erie County.
Ohio
Auglaize County
This Sandy Beach is located in Auglaize County and lies 331 miles [532.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Sandy Beach that is located in Erie County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Auglaize County community of Sandy Beach.
Ontario
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 Ontario community of Sandy Beach.
Quebec
This Sandy Beach lies 801 miles [1,289.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sandy Beach that is located in Erie County.
Saskatchewan
This Sandy Beach lies 1,271 miles [2,045.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Sandy Beach that is located in Erie County.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sandy Beach ...
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.
Colonial Village (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Colonial Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Martinsville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs 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 Beach to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sandy Beach and extending to:
Buffalo, which is the Seat of Erie County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Sandy Beach to Buffalo, with an average speed<6> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 264 miles [424.9 km] to the east (E). 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 White House (Washington, DC) is 304 miles [489.2 km] to the south southeast (SSE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 12 days and walking would take 18 days.
The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,798 miles [9,331 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,524 miles [10,499.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,400 miles [7,081.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<10>
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 Beach) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sandy Beach. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.0564, Longitude: -78.9598 In this case, the coordinates for Sandy Beach have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 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 Beach 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>
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.
<4>
If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.
<5>
An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>
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.
<7>
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 Beach to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.765 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.077 degrees.
<10>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.929 degrees.