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Sand Spring

Ghost town · Limestone County, Alabama

Ardmore quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000)
Ardmore quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Sand Spring is a ghost town in Limestone County, Alabama. It is one of 6 former communities in Limestone County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 16th among the 53 Alabama counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Sand Spring as a historical populated place on the Ardmore topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 34.9195° N, 86.8447° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleArdmore
Elevation841 ft
Nearest living townArdmore, AL
Distance to it4.8 miles
GNIS feature ID137901
Coordinates34.91953, -86.84472

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Sand Spring today, aerial view
Ardmore quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000)

Left: Ardmore quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Sand Spring is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Ardmore, AL (population 1,444), about 4.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 841 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Sand Spring?

Sand Spring is in Limestone County, Alabama, at 34.9195, -86.8447.

How many ghost towns are in Limestone County?

Limestone County, Alabama has 6 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.