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:
34.293206, -80.617857
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 Kershaw 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 South Carolina that is also named Sandy Springs.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In South Carolina ...
Anderson County
This Sandy Springs is located in Anderson County and lies 123 miles [197.9 km]<1> to the west of the Sandy Springs that is located in Kershaw County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Sandy Springs.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Cherokee County
This Sandy Springs is located in Cherokee County and lies 279 miles [449 km]<1> to the west of the Sandy Springs that is located in Kershaw 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 216 miles [347.6 km]<1> to the west of the Sandy Springs that is located in Kershaw 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 442 miles [711.3 km]<1> to the west of the Sandy Springs that is located in Kershaw County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Itawamba County community of Sandy Springs.
North Carolina
Polk County
This Sandy Springs is located in Polk County and lies 99 miles [159.3 km]<1> to the northwest of the Sandy Springs that is located in Kershaw County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Polk County community of Sandy Springs.
Wayne County
This Sandy Springs is located in Wayne County and lies 167 miles [268.8 km] to the east northeast of the Sandy Springs that is located in Kershaw County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Sandy Springs.
Ohio
Adams County
This Sandy Springs is located in Adams County and lies 333 miles [535.9 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Sandy Springs that is located in Kershaw County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Adams County community of Sandy Springs.
Tennessee
Robertson County
This Sandy Springs is located in Robertson County and lies 389 miles [626 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Sandy Springs that is located in Kershaw 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:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 31 miles [49.9 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could walk a straight line from Sandy Springs to Columbia, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 374 miles [601.9 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take 6 hours, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 22 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,252 miles [10,061.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,946 miles [11,178.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,827 miles [7,768.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 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.
<4>
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: 34.2932, Longitude: -80.6179 In this case, the coordinates for Sandy Springs have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.089 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.265 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.691 degrees.