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Big Sandy is a town in Upshur County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census , the town's population was 1,231. [ 4 ] A lake of the same name is cut nearly in half by U.S. Highway 80 , the main thoroughfare of Big Sandy.
Big Sandy is located at (36.234203, -88.085869). [7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.7 square miles (1.8 km 2), all land. Big Sandy is concentrated around the intersection of State Route 69A and State Route 147.
Big Sandy is a town in Chouteau County, Montana, United States. The population was 605 at the 2020 census. [3] The Lewis and Clark Trail, following U.S. Route 87, goes through Big Sandy. Big Sandy native Jeff Ament, Pearl Jam bassist, built the town a skatepark with his Montana Pool Service non-profit organization in 2010. [4]
The Big Sandy River, called Sandy Creek as early as 1756, is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 29 miles (47 km) long, [7] in western West Virginia and northeastern Kentucky in the United States. The river forms part of the boundary between the two states along its entire course.
USP Big Sandy is located both on a mountaintop removal mining site and a former underground coal mine. Due to the underground mine, the federal government spent $40 million to remediate the site before construction and had to spend additional millions after construction began to fix further issues, making the project the most expensive federal prison project at the time. [4]
Big Sandy Creek is a 211-mile-long (340 km) [3] tributary of the Arkansas River noted for being the location of the Sand Creek Massacre in Kiowa County.Long stretches are dry most of the time on the surface, although water still flows underground.
The Levisa Fork (also known as the Levisa Fork River or the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River) is a tributary of the Big Sandy River, approximately 164 miles (264 km) long, [3] in southwestern Virginia and eastern Kentucky in the United States.
Big Sandy Creek is a 58.0-mile-long (93.3 km) tributary of the Sabine River in Franklin, ... Big Sandy Creek; USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Texas (1974)