Do you know of Sandy Point ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Sandy Point. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Sandy Point.

Unfortunately, we didn't note our source when we found mention of Sandy Point, so we are uncertain whether Sandy Point is a community, a post office or a post office located in a community and having the same name. While we don't have its location, we believe that Sandy Point would be found somewhere in Washington County, Rhode Island.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Sandy Point ...

We found seventeen communities that share the name Sandy Point.

There is one other community in Rhode Island which is also named Sandy Point.

Beyond Rhode Island, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and four are in Canada.

Communities Located In Rhode Island ...
- Kent 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 Rhode Island community of Sandy Point [Kent County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
  - Barbour County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Sandy Point [Barbour County].
- Connecticut
  - New London County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of Sandy Point [New London County].
- Florida
  - Suwannee County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Sandy Point [Suwannee County].
- Georgia
  - Crawford County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Sandy Point [Crawford County].
- Maine
  - Waldo County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Sandy Point [Waldo County].
- Maryland
  - Wicomico County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Sandy Point [Wicomico County].
- New Jersey
  - Ocean 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 Point [Ocean County].
- Newfoundland and Labrador
  - Please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Sandy Point.
- Nova Scotia
  - Please visit our profile page for the Nova Scotia community of Sandy Point.
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Sandy Point.
- Pennsylvania
  - Butler County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Sandy Point [Butler County].
- Tennessee
  - Benton County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Sandy Point [Benton County].
- Texas
  - Brazoria County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Sandy Point [Brazoria County].
- Virginia
  - Northumberland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Sandy Point [Northumberland County].
  - Westmoreland County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Sandy Point [Westmoreland County].
- Washington
  - Island 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 Washington community of Sandy Point [Island County].

More Orphans in Washington County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Washington County.

Footnotes ...

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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 Point 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.