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Big Sandy
Big Sandy may refer to: Communities *Big Sandy, Montana, a town in Chouteau County * Big Sandy, Nebraska, in Thayer County, Nebraska * Big Sandy, Tennessee, a town in Benton County *Big Sandy, Texas, a town in Upshur County * Big Sandy, West Virginia, an unincorporated census-designated place in McDowell County * Big Sandy, Wyoming, in Sublette County, Wyoming Other * Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, a California band * Big Sandy Regional Airport, located in southwest Martin County, Kentucky, United States *United States Penitentiary, Big Sandy, in Inez, Kentucky *The nickname of the main dirt track at Belmont Park Belmont Park is a thoroughbred racing, thoroughbred horse racetrack in Elmont, New York, just east of New York City limits best known for hosting the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the American Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United Stat ... in Elmont, New York See also * Big Sandy Creek (other) * Big Sandy River (other) * {{disambiguatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Sandy, Montana
Big Sandy is a town in Chouteau County, Montana, Chouteau County, Montana, United States. The population was 605 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, Lewis and Clark Trail, following U.S. Route 87 in Montana, 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. Big Bud 747, claimed to be the largest farm tractor in the world, was located here from 1997 until 2009, and returned in 2020. History At one time the site of a saloon that served Missouri River freighters, the community of Big Sandy is named for nearby Big Sandy Creek. The town began in 1887 with the arrival of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway (later the Great Northern Railway (U.S.), Great Northern Railway). By early 1900, Cornelius J. McNamara and Thomas A. Marlow, owners of the McNamara Cattle Company, had opened the town's first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Sandy, Nebraska
Big or BIG may refer to: * Big, of great size or degree Film and television * ''Big'' (film), a 1988 fantasy-comedy film starring Tom Hanks * ''Big'', a 2023 Taiwanese children's film starring Van Fan and Chie Tanaka * ''Big!'', a Discovery Channel television show * ''Richard Hammond's Big'', a television show presented by Richard Hammond * ''Big'' (TV series), a 2012 South Korean TV series * "Big" (''My Hero''), a 2003 television episode * ''Banana Island Ghost'', a 2017 fantasy action comedy film Music * '' Big: the musical'', a 1996 musical based on the film * Big Records, a record label * ''Big!'' (Betty Who album) * ''Big'' (album), a 2007 album by Macy Gray * "Big" (Brassmunk song) * "Big" (Dead Letter Circus song) * "Big" (Fontaines D.C. song) * "Big" (Juice Wrld song) * "Big" (Sneaky Sound System song) * "Big" (Rita Ora and Imanbek song) * "Big" (Young M.A song) * "Big", a 1990 song by New Fast Automatic Daffodils * "Big", a 2021 song by Jade Eagleson from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thayer County, Nebraska
Thayer County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 5,034. Its county seat is Hebron. The county was created in 1856 and originally named Jefferson County. It was organized in 1870-1871 and renamed for General and Governor John Milton Thayer. In the Nebraska license plate system, Thayer County is represented by the prefix 32 (it had the thirty-second-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922). Geography Thayer County lies on the south line of Nebraska. Its south boundary line abuts the north boundary line of the state of Kansas. Its terrain consists of rolling hills, sloped toward the east. A local drainage, Big Sandy Creek, flows southeast and east through the northern part of the county, and another drainage, Rose Creek, flows northeastward through the SE corner of the county (they converge east of Thayer County's east boundary line). The planar por ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Sandy, Tennessee
Big Sandy is a town in Benton County, Tennessee. The population was 486 at the 2020 census. History In the late 1850s the Memphis & Ohio Railroad constructed a line south of what is now Kentucky Lake. A community formed around a water tank and fuel yard. By 1903, the town of Big Sandy was incorporated. Geography Big Sandy is located at (36.234203, -88.085869). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Big Sandy is concentrated around the intersection of State Route 69A and State Route 147. Climate Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 518 people, 241 households, and 145 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 298 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 99.23% White, 0.19% from other races, and 0.58% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.19% of the population. There were 241 households, out of which 22.0% had children und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Sandy, Texas
Big Sandy is a town in Upshur County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town's population was 1,231. A lake of the same name is cut nearly in half by U.S. Highway 80, the main thoroughfare of Big Sandy. It lies directly west of the larger cities of Gladewater and Longview. The Sabine River flows just south of Big Sandy. In the 19th century, Walters' Bluff Ferry operated on the Sabine, with passage across costing 40 cents per person and up to 75 cents for wagons. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.7 square miles (4.3 km2), of which, 1.6 square miles (4.2 km2) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2) of it (1.80%) is water. Demographics As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,231 people, 524 households, and 300 families residing in the town. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,288 people, 532 households, and 342 families residing in the town. The popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Sandy, West Virginia
Big Sandy is a census-designated place (CDP) located in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population is 198 (up from 168 at the 2010 census). The town's name comes from the Big Sandy River, a major tributary of the Ohio River which forms the boundary between West Virginia and Kentucky. See also *List of ghost towns in West Virginia There are many ghost towns in West Virginia, some of which were created and abandoned as part of the "boom and bust" economy of coal mining industry. * Algoma, in McDowell County * Ames, in Fayette County * Bachman, in Fayette County * ... References External links Fall River Elementary School Census-designated places in McDowell County, West Virginia Census-designated places in West Virginia West Virginia populated places on the Tug Fork {{McDowellCountyWV-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Sandy, Wyoming
Big or BIG may refer to: * Big, of great size or degree Film and television * ''Big'' (film), a 1988 fantasy-comedy film starring Tom Hanks * ''Big'', a 2023 Taiwanese children's film starring Van Fan and Chie Tanaka * ''Big!'', a Discovery Channel television show * ''Richard Hammond's Big'', a television show presented by Richard Hammond * ''Big'' (TV series), a 2012 South Korean TV series * "Big" (''My Hero''), a 2003 television episode * ''Banana Island Ghost'', a 2017 fantasy action comedy film Music * '' Big: the musical'', a 1996 musical based on the film * Big Records, a record label * ''Big!'' (Betty Who album) * ''Big'' (album), a 2007 album by Macy Gray * "Big" (Brassmunk song) * "Big" (Dead Letter Circus song) * "Big" (Fontaines D.C. song) * "Big" (Juice Wrld song) * "Big" (Sneaky Sound System song) * "Big" (Rita Ora and Imanbek song) * "Big" (Young M.A song) * "Big", a 1990 song by New Fast Automatic Daffodils * "Big", a 2021 song by Jade Eagleson from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sublette County, Wyoming
Sublette County is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 8,728. The county seat is Pinedale. It is a sparsely populated rural county in western Wyoming, along the Green River. History Sublette County was created February 15, 1921, of land partitioned from Fremont and Lincoln counties. Its governing organization was completed by 1923. Before settlement, the western Wyoming mountains were traversed and harvested by fur trappers and traders. Sublette County is named for one of those early characters, William Lewis Sublette. Today the county celebrates its fur trade heritage with the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale. In the early 1900s the majority of the population in what is today Sublette County were first generation immigrants from England and Germany. A majority of the population in Sublette County supported America's entry into World War I and at the time the county was known for its "pro-British" sentiment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys is an American rockabilly and Western swing band from California composed of Robert Williams, alias Big Sandy, Ashley Kingman, Frankie Hernandez and Russell Scott. The band is known for its eclectic style, which encompasses rockabilly, Western swing, folk, bluegrass, Cajun, mariachi, rock and roll, folk rock, swing and country. Robert Williams grew up listening to jump blues records from his parents' collection, and subsequently performed with neo-rockabilly bands in southern California in the 1980s before forming the Fly-Rite Boys band as a trio in 1988. After recording two albums as Big Sandy & the Fly-Rite Trio, the band expanded its line-up and released its official debut studio album, ''Jumping from 6 to 6'', in 1994. ''Swingin' West'', the band's second album, was released the following year, and featured more prominent Western swing influences than the band's debut. After releasing a more eclectic sounding album, ''Feelin' Kinda Lucky'', in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Sandy Regional Airport
Big Sandy Regional Airport (, former FAA LID: K22) is a public use airport in southwest Martin County, Kentucky. The airport is northeast of Prestonsburg, a city in Floyd County. Facilities The airport covers at an elevation of . Its single runway, 3/21, is . In the year ending July 12, 2022, the airport had 7,580 aircraft operations, average 21 per day: 85% general aviation, 12% air taxi and 3% military. 17 aircraft were then based at the airport: 14 single-engine, 1 jet, 1 helicopter, and 1 glider. See also * List of airports in Kentucky This is a list of airports in Kentucky (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports tha ... References External links * * {{US-airport-minor, KSJS, , SJS Airports in Kentucky Buildings and structures in Martin County, Kentucky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Penitentiary, Big Sandy
The United States Penitentiary, Big Sandy (USP Big Sandy) is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated area, unincorporated Martin County, Kentucky, near the city of Inez, Kentucky, Inez. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has a satellite prison camp which houses minimum-security male inmates. USP Big Sandy is located in eastern Kentucky, approximately from Lexington, from Frankfort, and from Washington, DC. Facility 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. Harvard University owned the oil and gas rights to the property and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belmont Park
Belmont Park is a thoroughbred racing, thoroughbred horse racetrack in Elmont, New York, just east of New York City limits best known for hosting the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the American Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States), Triple Crown. It was opened on May 4, 1905, and is one of the most well known racetracks in the United States. The original structure was demolished in 1963, and a second facility opened in 1968. The second structure was demolished in 2023, and a third version of Belmont Park is expected to open in 2026. Operated by the New York Racing Association (NYRA), Belmont Park is typically open for racing from late April through mid-July (known as the Spring meet), and again from mid-September through late October (the Fall meet). The race park's main dirt track has earned the nickname, "the Big Sandy", given its prominent overall dimensions and the deep, sometimes tiring surface. Belmont is also sometimes known as "The Championship Track" be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
