Sand Springs is an unincorporated community in South Fork Township, Delaware County, Iowa, United States.

In 1856, the Southwestern (Milwaukee) Railway was surveyed in this area, and a railroad station was eventually established.

[3] The Sand Spring post office opened in 1858, the same year a hotel was built.

The rail line was completed in 1859, with the help of townsfolk (including women) who pitched in to help lay the tracks.

However, a railroad line built in nearby Hopkinton was said to have diminished Sand Springs' economics, and a 1914 history of the county called Sand Spring "primitive" and past its heyday.