Explore Sandy Creek, Quebec, Canada, with this interactive street and satellite map. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above the map to switch views. You can “grab” the map and drag it to re-centre it, or use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out to street-level detail.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours — plus shaded relief, a labelled UTM grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.
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This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Sandy Creek, Quebec. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of Quebec or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Sandy Creek and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the Canada Base Map from Natural Resources Canada with Toporama contours layered over it — the CanVec topographic data behind the printed NTS sheets, and the mapping used for hiking, hunting, canoe routes and back-country travel. Relief shows shaded relief and hypsometric tints. The search box finds any Canadian town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Sandy Creek.
Reading the map like a paper NTS sheet. Click Grid to overlay the UTM grid, labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass — which matters in Canada, where declination runs from about 20 degrees west in Newfoundland to 20 degrees east in the Yukon.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a UTM/MGRS grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what Canadian search and rescue work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
Map search is available for a limited number of queries per session to manage costs. Be specific — search precisely for best results.
| Place | Sandy Creek |
| Type | Hamlet |
| Province / Territory | Quebec (QC) |
| Location | Otter Lake; Pontiac |
| Country | Canada |
| Latitude | 45.961111 |
| Longitude | -76.4925 |
| Postal Code (FSA) | J0X |
| Area Code | 263, 354, 367, 418, 438, 450, 514, 579, 581, 819, 873 |
| Importance | Village / hamlet |
| CGN ID | EKJXW |
Sandy Creek is a hamlet in Otter Lake; Pontiac, Quebec, Canada. It is classified as a village / hamlet. Sandy Creek is located at 45.9611°N, 76.4925°W.
Sandy Creek flows with a quiet, persistent clarity through the rugged terrain of the Collines Polish. It lies 23.2 km north-east of Fort-Coulonge, QC (from Fort-Coulonge, QC: bearing 55°T), and is situated 26.6 km north-north-east of Campbell's Bay. The water of Sandy Creek moves toward the Rivière Dumont, cutting through a landscape where the light at dusk catches the sharp edges of stone and pulls long, silver shadows across the moss. Only a kilometer away, the surface of Lac Way holds the stillness of the deep woods, offering a counterpoint to the restless movement of the stream. While the distant, thundering presence of Chutes Coulonge marks the wider region, the immediate surroundings of Sandy Creek remain defined by the intimate, sudden shifts of the Canadian Shield. The air here holds the crisp, resinous scent of pine and damp earth, a sensory grounding that persists even as the seasons turn the leaves to brittle copper. Life in the Pontiac persists with a steady, pragmatic focus on the land and the forest that surrounds it. The historical echoes of timber harvesting still resonate in the way the local economy prioritizes the working woods, maintaining a direct relationship between the people and the resources of the Collines Polish. Further afield, the protected expanse of the Réserve écologique de la Chênaie-des-Îles-Finlay guards a different kind of silence, emphasizing the importance of the natural heritage that defines this northern geography. In the daily movements of those near Sandy Creek, there is an awareness of the persistent, elemental power of the Rivière Dumont, which continues to shape the character of the settlement as surely as it shapes the earth.
Sandy Creek se déploie avec une retenue souveraine parmi les ondulations des Collines Polish, où le relief semble conserver le souvenir des anciennes glaciations. La lumière du crépuscule glisse sur les pentes, révélant la texture minérale du sol qui a dicté, depuis les premiers défrichements, une existence vouée à la terre et à la rudesse du travail forestier. À proximité, le cours de la Rivière Dumont dessine une boucle lente, ses eaux sombres charriant la vitalité des terres hautes vers des horizons plus vastes. La présence du Lac Way, situé à peine à un kilomètre, offre aux habitants une étendue de silence miroitant, tandis que le fracas lointain des Chutes Coulonge, à dix-huit kilomètres, rappelle la puissance indomptée de ces reliefs. Sandy Creek vit au rythme de cette géographie austère, marquée par la proximité de la Réserve écologique de la Chênaie-des-Îles-Finlay, sanctuaire végétal distant d'une trentaine de kilomètres qui impose son calme souverain sur la région. Ici, le quotidien s'accorde à la saisonnalité rigoureuse du Pontiac, transformant chaque labeur en une forme de dialogue silencieux avec une nature qui ne cède rien, mais qui, par sa simple permanence, confère une dignité singulière à ceux qui habitent ces parages.
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Explore Sandy Creek, Quebec, Canada, with an embedded street and satellite map — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 45.961111, -76.4925. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts — including hourly outlooks — are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Detailed location data for Sandy Creek includes the postal code (J0X), telephone area code (263, 354, 367, 418, 438, 450, 514, 579, 581, 819, 873). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any Canadian city or town.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any Canadian town, county or landmark by name; offers the Canada Base Map with Toporama contours and shaded relief as base layers; overlays a labelled UTM grid so the map can be read like a printed NTS sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a UTM/MGRS grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data for Sandy Creek is sourced from the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada, and verified by coordinates rather than name matching alone. GPS coordinates, province, administrative location and place type are shown in the information panel above.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGN), Natural Resources Canada |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; Canada Base Map, Toporama and CBME © Natural Resources Canada (Open Government Licence — Canada); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |