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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 Raysville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Raysville 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 Raysville:
    • 33.619020, -82.481795
    • 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 Raysville
  • 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 McDuffie County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for McDuffie County
    • Since Raysville is near Lincoln County and also Columbia County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lincoln County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Columbia 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 Raysville

Communities Also Named Raysville ...

We found three communities that are also named Raysville.

Within Georgia, the name Raysville is unique.

Beyond Georgia, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Indiana
      • Henry County
      • This Raysville is located in Henry County and lies 458 miles [737.1 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Raysville that is located in McDuffie County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henry County community of Raysville.
    • Ohio
      • Jackson 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 Ohio community of Raysville [Jackson County].
    • Tennessee
      • Moore County
      • This Raysville is located in Moore County and lies 248 miles [399.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Raysville that is located in McDuffie County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Moore County community of Raysville.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Raysville ...

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.

  • Anthony Crossroads
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Anthony Crossroads is located in McDuffie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anthony Crossroads
  • Clay Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Clay Hill is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clay Hill
  • Leathersville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Leathersville is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leathersville
  • Oak Grove
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Oak Grove is located in Wilkes County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
  • Price Ferry
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Price Ferry is located in Columbia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Price Ferry
  • Stones Crossroads
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Stones Crossroads is located in McDuffie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stones Crossroads
  • Three Points
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Three Points is located in McDuffie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Points
  • Woodlawn
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Woodlawn is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlawn

How Far From Raysville 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 Raysville to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Thomson, which is the Seat of McDuffie County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the south. If you could walk a straight line from Raysville to Thomson, with an average speed<3> 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 110 miles [177 km] to the west (W). 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 473 miles [761.2 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 19 days and walking would take 27 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,363 miles [10,240.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,060 miles [11,362 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,940 miles [7,950.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Raysville) 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 Raysville 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 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.
<4>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 Raysville 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 Raysville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.6190, Longitude: -82.4818       In this case, the coordinates for Raysville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.142 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.379 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.584 degrees.