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 Big Sandy:
36.308715, -82.587095
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 Big Sandy
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 Washington County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eleven communities that are also named Big Sandy.
There is one other community in Tennessee that is also named Big Sandy.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, ten are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In Tennessee ...
Benton County
This Big Sandy is located in Benton County and lies 306 miles [492.5 km]<1> to the west of the Big Sandy that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Benton County community of Big Sandy.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Twiggs 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 Georgia community of Big Sandy [Twiggs County].
Kentucky
Boyd County
This Big Sandy is located in Boyd County and lies 136 miles [218.9 km]<1> to the north of the Big Sandy that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Boyd County community of Big Sandy.
Lawrence 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 Kentucky community of Big Sandy [Lawrence County].
Montana
Chouteau County
This Big Sandy is located in Chouteau County and lies 1,615 miles [2,599.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Big Sandy that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chouteau County community of Big Sandy.
Nebraska
Saunders 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 Nebraska community of Big Sandy [Saunders County].
Ontario
This Big Sandy lies 595 miles [957.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Big Sandy that is located in Washington County.
Texas
Upshur County
This Big Sandy is located in Upshur County and lies 757 miles [1,218.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Big Sandy that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Upshur County community of Big Sandy.
West Virginia
McDowell County
This Big Sandy is located in McDowell County and lies 93 miles [149.7 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Big Sandy that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the McDowell County community of Big Sandy.
Wayne 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 West Virginia community of Big Sandy [Wayne County].
Wyoming
Sublette County
This Big Sandy is located in Sublette County and lies 1,490 miles [2,397.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Big Sandy that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sublette County community of Big Sandy.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Big Sandy ...
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, 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 Big Sandy to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Big Sandy and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 233 miles [375 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Big Sandy to Nashville, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 14 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 10 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 352 miles [566.5 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 20 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,245 miles [10,050.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,953 miles [11,189.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,830 miles [7,773.1 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- Big Sandy) 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 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 Big Sandy 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 Big Sandy 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 Big Sandy. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.3087, Longitude: -82.5871 In this case, the coordinates for Big Sandy have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.25 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.888 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.888 degrees.