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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 Sterling Heights, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Sterling Heights 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 Sterling Heights:
    • 33.525413, -82.048451
    • 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 Sterling Heights
  • 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 Richmond County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Richmond County
    • Since Sterling Heights is near Columbia County and also Edgefield County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Columbia County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Edgefield 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 Sterling Heights

Communities Also Named Sterling Heights ...

We found five communities that are also named Sterling Heights.

There is one other community in Georgia that is also named Sterling Heights.

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

  • Communities Located In Georgia ...
    • Fulton County
      • This Sterling Heights is located in Fulton County and lies 133 miles [214 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Sterling Heights that is located in Richmond County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Sterling Heights.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Hillsborough County
      • This Sterling Heights is located in Hillsborough County and lies 377 miles [606.7 km]<1> to the south of the Sterling Heights that is located in Richmond County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Sterling Heights.
    • Indiana
      • Marion County
      • This Sterling Heights is located in Marion County and lies 489 miles [787 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Sterling Heights that is located in Richmond County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Sterling Heights.
    • Michigan
      • Macomb County
      • This Sterling Heights is located in Macomb County and lies 627 miles [1,009.1 km]<1> to the north of the Sterling Heights that is located in Richmond County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Macomb County community of Sterling Heights.
    • Ohio
      • Warren 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 Sterling Heights [Warren County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Sterling Heights ...

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.

  • Arrow Head
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Arrow Head is located in Columbia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arrow Head
  • Forest Creek
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Forest Creek is located in Columbia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Creek
  • Forest Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Forest Park is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Park
  • Foxhall
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Foxhall is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxhall
  • Highgate
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Highgate is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highgate
  • Hillside Park
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Hillside Park is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside Park
  • Lulaville
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Lulaville is located in Columbia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lulaville
    • Estimated population in 2019: 2,961 people
  • Martinez
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Mayo
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Mayo is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayo
  • Maysville ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Maysville is located in Columbia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maysville
  • Memory Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Memory Park is located in Columbia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Memory Park
    • Population from the 2010 Census: 122 people
  • National Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • National Hills is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for National Hills
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Poverty Hill
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Poverty Hill is located in Edgefield County (SC)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poverty Hill
    • Rockbrook
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Rockbrook is located in Richmond County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockbrook
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 160 people
    • Stevens Pointe
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Stevens Pointe is located in Columbia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stevens Pointe
    • Summerville
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Summerville is located in Richmond County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerville
    • Sweetbriar
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Sweetbriar is located in Columbia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetbriar
    • Tanglewood
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Tanglewood is located in Richmond County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tanglewood
    • Woodlawn
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Woodlawn is located in Aiken County (SC)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlawn

How Far From Sterling Heights to ...

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

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

  • Augusta, which is the Seat of Richmond County, lies just to the Southeast.
  • Atlanta, which is the State Capital of Georgia, lies 135 miles [217.3 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Sterling Heights to Atlanta, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 464 miles [746.7 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,349 miles [10,217.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,043 miles [11,334.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,925 miles [7,926 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 from Point A (ie- Sterling Heights) 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Sterling Heights 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 Sterling Heights 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 Sterling Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.5254, Longitude: -82.0485       In this case, the coordinates for Sterling Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.891 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.077 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.444 degrees.