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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 South Haven, we use the following websites to find information relevant to South Haven 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 South Haven:
    • 35.283496, -78.015544
    • 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 South Haven
  • 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 Wayne County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Wayne County
    • Since South Haven is near Duplin County and also Lenoir County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Duplin County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lenoir 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 South Haven

Communities Also Named South Haven ...

We found ten communities that are also named South Haven.

Within North Carolina, the name South Haven is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Indiana
      • Porter County
      • This South Haven is located in Porter County and lies 655 miles [1,054.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the South Haven that is located in Wayne County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Porter County community of South Haven.
      • Wabash County
      • This South Haven is located in Wabash County and lies 569 miles [915.7 km] to the northwest of the South Haven that is located in Wayne County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wabash County community of South Haven.
    • Kansas
      • Sumner County
      • This South Haven is located in Sumner County and lies 1,085 miles [1,746.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the South Haven that is located in Wayne County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sumner County community of South Haven.
    • Maryland
      • Anne Arundel County
      • This South Haven is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 266 miles [428.1 km]<1> to the north northeast of the South Haven that is located in Wayne County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of South Haven.
    • Michigan
      • Van Buren County
      • This South Haven is located in Van Buren County and lies 661 miles [1,063.8 km]<1> to the northwest of the South Haven that is located in Wayne County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Van Buren County community of South Haven.
    • Minnesota
      • Wright County
      • This South Haven is located in Wright County and lies 1,094 miles [1,760.6 km]<1> to the northwest of the South Haven that is located in Wayne County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wright County community of South Haven.
    • New York
      • Suffolk County
      • This South Haven is located in Suffolk County and lies 471 miles [758 km]<1> to the north northeast of the South Haven that is located in Wayne County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Suffolk County community of South Haven.
    • Nova Scotia
      • This South Haven lies 1,178 miles [1,895.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the South Haven that is located in Wayne County.
    • Oklahoma
      • Tulsa 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 Oklahoma community of South Haven [Tulsa County].
    • Texas
      • Howard County
      • This South Haven is located in Howard County and lies 1,361 miles [2,190.3 km]<1> to the west of the South Haven that is located in Wayne County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Howard County community of South Haven.

Curious and Interesting Names Near South Haven ...

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.

  • Deerwood
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Deerwood is located in Wayne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerwood
  • Foxfire
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Foxfire is located in Wayne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxfire
  • Green Meadows
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Green Meadows is located in Wayne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Meadows
  • Greenleaf
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Greenleaf is located in Wayne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenleaf
  • Hopewell
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Hopewell is located in Wayne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopewell
  • Indian Springs
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Indian Springs is located in Wayne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Springs
  • Irongate
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Irongate is located in Wayne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irongate
  • Pleasant View
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Pleasant View is located in Wayne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant View
  • Ravenwood
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Ravenwood is located in Wayne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravenwood
  • Sandy Springs
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Sandy Springs is located in Wayne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Springs
  • Sleepy Creek
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Sleepy Creek is located in Wayne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sleepy Creek
  • Spring Hope
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Spring Hope is located in Wayne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Hope
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Stevens Mill
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Stevens Mill is located in Wayne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stevens Mill
    • Teakwood
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Teakwood is located in Wayne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teakwood
    • Tiffany Gardens
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Tiffany Gardens is located in Wayne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiffany Gardens
    • Walnut Creek
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Walnut Creek is located in Wayne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Creek
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 864 people

How Far From South Haven to ...

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

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

  • Goldsboro, which is the Seat of Wayne County, lies just to the North.
  • Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 49 miles [78.9 km]<1> to the northwest (NW). If you could walk a straight line from South Haven to Raleigh, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take about three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of two days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 255 miles [410.4 km] to the north (N). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 15 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,094 miles [9,807.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,785 miles [10,919.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,668 miles [7,512.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- South Haven) 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 South Haven 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 South Haven 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 South Haven. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2835, Longitude: -78.0155       In this case, the coordinates for South Haven have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.61 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.715 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.399 degrees.