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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 Run, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Sandy Run 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 Run:
    • 33.799877, -80.963980
    • 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 Run
  • 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 Calhoun County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Calhoun County
    • Since Sandy Run is near Lexington County and also Richland County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lexington County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Richland County
  • 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:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Sandy Run

Communities Also Named Sandy Run ...

We found eight communities that are also named Sandy Run.

There are three communities within South Carolina that are also named Sandy Run.

Beyond South Carolina, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In South Carolina ...
    • Berkeley County
      • This community is historic<1> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Sandy Run [Berkeley County].
    • Lexington 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 South Carolina community of Sandy Run [Lexington County].
    • Orangeburg County
      • This Sandy Run is located in Orangeburg County and lies 35 miles [56.3 km]<3> to the south southeast of the Sandy Run that is located in Calhoun County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orangeburg County community of Sandy Run.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Hancock County
      • This Sandy Run is located in Hancock County and lies 130 miles [209.2 km]<3> to the west southwest of the Sandy Run that is located in Calhoun County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hancock County community of Sandy Run.
      • Liberty County
      • This Sandy Run is located in Liberty County and lies 139 miles [223.7 km] to the south southwest of the Sandy Run that is located in Calhoun County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Liberty County community of Sandy Run.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Bedford County
      • This Sandy Run is located in Bedford County and lies 461 miles [741.9 km]<3> to the north northeast of the Sandy Run that is located in Calhoun County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bedford County community of Sandy Run.
      • Greene 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 Pennsylvania community of Sandy Run [Greene County].
      • Luzerne County
      • This Sandy Run is located in Luzerne County and lies 571 miles [918.9 km] to the north northeast of the Sandy Run that is located in Calhoun County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Luzerne County community of Sandy Run.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Sandy Run ...

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.

  • Apollo Gardens
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Apollo Gardens is located in Lexington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apollo Gardens
  • Arthurtown
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Arthurtown is located in Richland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arthurtown
  • Childs
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Childs is located in Richland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Childs
  • Dominion Hills
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Dominion Hills is located in Richland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dominion Hills
  • Edenwood
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Edenwood is located in Lexington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edenwood
  • Glenn Village
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Glenn Village is located in Lexington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenn Village
  • Heritage Woods
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Heritage Woods is located in Richland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heritage Woods
  • Independents
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Independents is located in Richland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Independents
  • Lloydswoods
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Lloydswoods is located in Lexington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lloydswoods
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Meadowfield
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Meadowfield is located in Richland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowfield
    • Oak Grove
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Oak Grove is located in Calhoun County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
    • Pineridge
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Pineridge is located in Lexington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pineridge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,419 people
    • Sharpes Hill
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Sharpes Hill is located in Lexington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharpes Hill
    • Silver Lake
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Silver Lake is located in Lexington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Lake
    • Starlite
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Starlite is located in Richland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Starlite

How Far From Sandy Run to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories 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 Run to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Saint Matthews, which is the Seat of Calhoun County, lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<3> to the southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Sandy Run to Saint Matthews, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
  • Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 14 miles [22.5 km] to the north northwest (NNW). The buggy would take four to five hours and walking would take most of a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 414 miles [666.3 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 17 days and walking would take 24 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,289 miles [10,121.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,982 miles [11,236.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,864 miles [7,827.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Run, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Run 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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sandy Run) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Run 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 Run. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.7999, Longitude: -80.9640       In this case, the coordinates for Sandy Run have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.28 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.414 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.962 degrees.