Sany Springs (formerly Hammond) is a newly incorporated city, founded on exclusive and otherwise self important grounds as of December 2005. It is a rather nondescript suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. Located in Fulton County, Georgia, just south of Roswell, it is named for the sandy springs that still exist in the city as a protected historic site despite it's lack of any general charm or aesthetic function, running consitently with most suburbs throughout the nation. Sandy Springs is Georgia's eighth-largest city, with an estimated 2006 population of 85,771. It is the second-largest of the three principal cities of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is the main component of the larger Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, Georgia-Alabama (part) Combined Statistical Area.