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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 Sunny Acres, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Sunny Acres 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 Sunny Acres:
    • 34.743494, -79.495049
    • 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 Sunny Acres
  • 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 Scotland County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Scotland County
    • Since Sunny Acres is near Marlboro County and also Robeson County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Marlboro County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Robeson 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 Sunny Acres

Communities Also Named Sunny Acres ...

We found eleven communities that are also named Sunny Acres.

Within North Carolina, the name Sunny Acres is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Hillsborough County
      • This Sunny Acres is located in Hillsborough County and lies 489 miles [787 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Sunny Acres that is located in Scotland County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Sunny Acres.
    • Georgia
      • Dougherty County
      • This Sunny Acres is located in Dougherty County and lies 348 miles [560.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the Sunny Acres that is located in Scotland County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dougherty County community of Sunny Acres.
      • Gwinnett County
      • This Sunny Acres is located in Gwinnett County and lies 259 miles [416.8 km] to the west southwest of the Sunny Acres that is located in Scotland County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gwinnett County community of Sunny Acres.
      • Paulding County
      • This Sunny Acres is located in Paulding County and lies 306 miles [492.5 km] to the west of the Sunny Acres that is located in Scotland County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Paulding County community of Sunny Acres.
    • Illinois
      • Cook County
      • This Sunny Acres is located in Cook County and lies 682 miles [1,097.6 km]<1> to the northwest of the Sunny Acres that is located in Scotland County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Sunny Acres.
    • Kentucky
      • Kenton County
      • This Sunny Acres is located in Kenton County and lies 404 miles [650.2 km]<1> to the northwest of the Sunny Acres that is located in Scotland County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kenton County community of Sunny Acres.
    • Maryland
      • Frederick County
      • This Sunny Acres is located in Frederick County and lies 343 miles [552 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Sunny Acres that is located in Scotland County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of Sunny Acres.
      • Prince George's 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 Maryland community of Sunny Acres [Prince George's County].
    • New Brunswick
      • This Sunny Acres lies 1,099 miles [1,768.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Sunny Acres that is located in Scotland County.
    • Ohio
      • Lawrence County
      • This Sunny Acres is located in Lawrence County and lies 301 miles [484.4 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Sunny Acres that is located in Scotland County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lawrence County community of Sunny Acres.
    • South Carolina
      • Pickens County
      • This Sunny Acres is located in Pickens County and lies 187 miles [300.9 km]<1> to the west of the Sunny Acres that is located in Scotland County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pickens County community of Sunny Acres.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Sunny Acres ...

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.

  • Crossway
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Crossway is located in Scotland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crossway
  • Hasty
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Hasty is located in Scotland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hasty
  • Ida Mill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Ida Mill is located in Scotland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ida Mill
  • Johns
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Johns is located in Scotland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johns
  • Lincoln Heights
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Lincoln Heights is located in Scotland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Heights
  • Masons Crossroads
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Masons Crossroads is located in Scotland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masons Crossroads
  • Sandy Bottoms
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Sandy Bottoms is located in Scotland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Bottoms
  • Sugar Hill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Sugar Hill is located in Scotland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Hill
  • Sunshine Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Sunshine Park is located in Scotland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine Park
  • Whispering Pines
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Whispering Pines is located in Scotland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whispering Pines
  • Woodrun
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Woodrun is located in Scotland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodrun

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

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

  • Laurinburg, which is the Seat of Scotland County, lies just to the Northeast.
  • Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 86 miles [138.4 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Sunny Acres to Raleigh, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 317 miles [510.2 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 18 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,183 miles [9,950.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,876 miles [11,065.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,758 miles [7,657.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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- Sunny Acres) 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 Sunny Acres 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 Sunny Acres 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 Sunny Acres. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.7435, Longitude: -79.4950       In this case, the coordinates for Sunny Acres have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.452 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.60 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.131 degrees.