Sand Hill, Sandhill, Sand Hills, or Sandhills may refer to:
Settlements
United States
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Sand Hill, Oakley, California
Sand Hill is a former unincorporated area, unincorporated community now annexed to Oakley, California, Oakley in Contra Costa County, California, Contra Costa County, California. It lies at an elevation of 43 feet (13 m). It is west of Knightsen, C ...
, a former unincorporated community
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Sand Hill, Georgia
Sand Hill is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.
History
A post office called Sand Hill was established in 1854, and remained in operation until 1904. Sand Hill received its descriptive name on account o ...
, an unincorporated community
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Sand Hill, Kentucky (disambiguation) Sand Hill may refer to:
*Sand Hill, Harlan County, Kentucky
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size. Sand grains are smaller than gravel and coa ...
, several places
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Sand Hill, Attala County, Mississippi
Sand Hill is a ghost town in Attala County, Mississippi, United States. Sand Hill was east of West
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction ...
, a ghost town
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Sand Hill, Copiah County, Mississippi
Sand Hill is an unincorporated community in Copiah County, Mississippi
Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mex ...
, an unincorporated community
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Sand Hill, Greene County, Mississippi
Sand Hill is an unincorporated community in Greene County, Mississippi, United States. Sand Hill is located at the junction of Mississippi Highway 42 and Mississippi Highway 63
Mississippi Highway 63 (MS 63) is an state highway in southeastern ...
, an unincorporated community
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Sand Hill, Jones County, Mississippi
Sand Hill is an unincorporated community in Jones County, Mississippi, United States. Sand Hill is located on Mississippi Highway 588
Mississippi Highway 588 (MS 588) is a state highway running from U.S. Route 84 (US 84) outsi ...
, an unincorporated community
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Sand Hill, Rankin County, Mississippi, an unincorporated community
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Sand Hill, Missouri
Sand Hill (sometimes spelled Sandhill) is an unincorporated community in Scotland County, in the U.S. state of Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List ...
, an unincorporated community
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Sand Hill, Pennsylvania
Sand Hill is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,496 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Sand Hill is located in central Lebanon County, in main North Leban ...
, a census-designated place
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Sand Hill, Marshall County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
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Sand Hill, Wood County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
Other places
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Sandhill, Belize
Sandhill, Belize is a populated settlement located in the nation of Belize. It is a mainland village located in the Belize District
Belize District is a district of the nation of Belize. Its capital is Belize City.
Geography
Most of the B ...
, a village in the Belize District
Regions in the United States
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Sandhills (Carolina)
The Sandhills or Carolina Sandhills is a 10-35 mi wide physiographic region within the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain province, along the updip (inland) margin of this province in the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The ...
, a strip of ancient beach dunes in North and South Carolina
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Sandhills (Nebraska), a region of mixed-grass prairie in north-central Nebraska
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Monahans Sandhills State Park, Monahans, Texas
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Sand Hill Wildlife Management Area, near Parkersburg, West Virginia
Natural features
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Sand Hill (Noble County, Indiana), a hill in Indiana, US
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Sand Hill (Herkimer County, New York)
Sand Hill is a summit located in Central New York Region of New York (state), New York located in the Town of Russia, New York, Russia in Herkimer County, New York, Herkimer County, east-northeast of Poland, Herkimer County, New York, Poland.
R ...
, an elevation located in New York, US
*Sand Hill, a subsidiary summit (756 m / 2480 ft) of
Hopegill Head
Hopegill Head is a fell in the English Lake District in Cumbria. It is located nine kilometres (5½ miles) west of the town of Keswick and is well seen from the B5292 road which crosses the Whinlatter Pass.
Topography
Hopegill Head is the ...
, Cumbria, England
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Sand Hill River
The Sand Hill River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed June 8, 2011 tributary of the Red River of the North in northwestern Minnesota in the United States. Via the Red ...
, tributary of the Red River of the North, western Minnesota, US
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Sandhill, a type of xeric wildfire-maintained ecosystem in the coastal plain of North America
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Dune
A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. An area with dunes is called a dune system or a dune complex. A large dune complex is called a dune field, while broad, f ...
, a hill of sand
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Blowout (geomorphology)
Blowouts are sandy depressions in a sand dune ecosystem (psammosere) caused by the removal of sediments by wind.
Commonly found in coastal settings and margins of arid areas, blowouts tend to form when wind erodes patches of bare sand on stabi ...
, a sandy depression in an otherwise vegetated sandhills environment
Other uses
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Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California, US
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Sandhill Park
Sandhill Park in the parish of Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, England is a derelict country house built in about 1720. It was used in the 20th century as a prisoner of war camp, a home for handicapped children and later as a military and civilian ho ...
, a country house in Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, England
See also
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Sandhill crane (''Grus canadensis''), a large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia
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Sandhill dunnart (''Sminthopsis psammophila''), a small carnivorous Australian marsupial
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Sandhill frog
The northern sandhill frog (''Arenophryne rotunda'') is a small, fossorial frog native to a small region of the Western Australian coast. It was formerly considered the sole species within the genus ''Arenophryne'' until the first decade of th ...
(''Arenophryne rotunda''), a small, fossorial frog in Western Australia
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Sandhill rustic
The sandhill rustic (''Luperina nickerlii'') is a noctuid moth found in various parts of western, southern and central Europe with several subspecies. The species was Species description, first described by Christian Friedrich Freyer in 1845.
T ...
(''Luperina nickerlii''), a noctuid moth
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