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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Pennington, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Pennington and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
    • To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above, we pass this GPS location for Pennington:
    • 32.160163, -84.087129
    • Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
    • Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Pennington
  • Bird Watching ...
    • We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
    • The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Sumter County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Sumter County
    • Since Pennington is near Dooly County and also Macon County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Dooly County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Macon County
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Pennington

Communities Also Named Pennington ...

We found seventeen communities that are also named Pennington.

There is one other community in Georgia that is also named Pennington.

Beyond Georgia, we know of sixteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Georgia ...
    • Morgan County
      • This Pennington is located in Morgan County and lies 96 miles [154.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Pennington that is located in Sumter County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Morgan County community of Pennington.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Choctaw County
      • This Pennington is located in Choctaw County and lies 231 miles [371.8 km]<1> to the west of the Pennington that is located in Sumter County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Choctaw County community of Pennington.
    • Arkansas
      • Jackson County
      • This Pennington is located in Jackson County and lies 464 miles [746.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Pennington that is located in Sumter County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Pennington.
    • British Columbia
      • This Pennington lies 2,985 miles [4,803.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Pennington that is located in Sumter County.
    • California
      • Sutter County
      • This Pennington is located in Sutter County and lies 2,153 miles [3,464.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Pennington that is located in Sumter County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sutter County community of Pennington.
    • Delaware
      • New Castle County
      • This Pennington is located in New Castle County and lies 713 miles [1,147.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Pennington that is located in Sumter County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of Pennington.
    • Kansas
      • Pennington #1
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Pennington.
    • Minnesota
      • Beltrami County
      • This Pennington is located in Beltrami County and lies 1,190 miles [1,915.1 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Pennington that is located in Sumter County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Beltrami County community of Pennington.
    • New Jersey
      • Mercer County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Pennington [Mercer County].
    • New Mexico
      • Union County
      • This Pennington is located in Union County and lies 1,149 miles [1,849.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Pennington that is located in Sumter County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Pennington.
    • North Carolina
      • Stanly County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Pennington [Stanly County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Huntingdon County
      • This Pennington is located in Huntingdon County and lies 674 miles [1,084.7 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Pennington that is located in Sumter County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Huntingdon County community of Pennington.
    • South Dakota
      • Minnehaha County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Pennington [Minnehaha County].
    • Texas
      • Trinity County
      • This Pennington is located in Trinity County and lies 658 miles [1,058.9 km]<1> to the west of the Pennington that is located in Sumter County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Trinity County community of Pennington.
    • Virginia
      • Lee County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of Pennington [Lee County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Oneida County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Pennington [Oneida County].
      • Price County
      • This Pennington is located in Price County and lies 982 miles [1,580.4 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Pennington that is located in Sumter County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Price County community of Pennington.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Pennington ...

As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.

  • Bumphead
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Bumphead is located in Schley County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bumphead
  • Clearview
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Clearview is located in Macon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clearview
  • Cutoff
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Cutoff is located in Macon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutoff
  • Danville ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Danville is located in Sumter County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danville
    • Estimated population in 2019: 212 people
  • Fields
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Fields is located in Macon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fields
  • Fountainville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Fountainville is located in Macon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountainville
  • La Crosse
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • La Crosse is located in Schley County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Crosse
  • Montezuma
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • New Era
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • New Era is located in Sumter County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Era
  • Travelers Rest
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Travelers Rest is located in Macon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Travelers Rest

How Far From Pennington to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Pennington to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Pennington and extending to:

  • Americus, which is the Seat of Sumter County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Pennington to Americus, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 111 miles [178.6 km] to the north (N). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 610 miles [981.7 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 24 days and walking would take 35 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,500 miles [10,460.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,194 miles [11,577.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,076 miles [8,169 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Pennington) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Pennington could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day.
<5>The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Pennington to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pennington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.1602, Longitude: -84.0871       In this case, the coordinates for Pennington have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.003 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.166 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.545 degrees.