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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 Boiling Springs, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Boiling Springs 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 Boiling Springs:
    • 35.046745, -81.983001
    • 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 Boiling Springs
  • 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 Spartanburg County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Spartanburg County
    • Since Boiling Springs is near Cherokee County and also Polk County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cherokee County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Polk 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 Boiling Springs

Communities Also Named Boiling Springs ...

We found ten communities that are also named Boiling Springs.

There is one other community in South Carolina that is also named Boiling Springs.

Beyond South Carolina, we know of nine communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In South Carolina ...
    • Barnwell County
      • This Boiling Springs is located in Barnwell County and lies 135 miles [217.3 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Boiling Springs that is located in Spartanburg County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Barnwell County community of Boiling Springs.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Calhoun County
      • This Boiling Springs is located in Calhoun County and lies 248 miles [399.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Boiling Springs that is located in Spartanburg County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calhoun County community of Boiling Springs.
      • Wilcox County
      • This Boiling Springs is located in Wilcox County and lies 374 miles [601.9 km] to the west southwest of the Boiling Springs that is located in Spartanburg County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wilcox County community of Boiling Springs.
    • Arkansas
      • Pope County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Boiling Springs [Pope County].
    • New Jersey
      • Essex County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Boiling Springs [Essex County].
    • North Carolina
      • Cherokee County
      • This Boiling Springs is located in Cherokee County and lies 114 miles [183.5 km]<1> to the west of the Boiling Springs that is located in Spartanburg County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cherokee County community of Boiling Springs.
      • Cleveland County
      • This Boiling Springs is located in Cleveland County and lies 22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast of the Boiling Springs that is located in Spartanburg County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cleveland County community of Boiling Springs.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Cumberland County
      • This Boiling Springs is located in Cumberland County and lies 441 miles [709.7 km]<1> to the northeast of the Boiling Springs that is located in Spartanburg County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Boiling Springs.
    • Tennessee
      • Montgomery County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Boiling Springs [Montgomery County].
      • Putnam County
      • This Boiling Springs is located in Putnam County and lies 214 miles [344.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Boiling Springs that is located in Spartanburg County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Putnam County community of Boiling Springs.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Boiling Springs ...

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.

  • Ferndale
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Ferndale is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ferndale
  • Hickory Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Hickory Hills is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Hills
  • Lone Oak
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Lone Oak is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Oak
  • Mountainbrook
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Mountainbrook is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountainbrook
  • Peachtree Gardens
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Peachtree Gardens is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peachtree Gardens
  • Quail Ridge
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Quail Ridge is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Ridge
  • Rainbow Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Rainbow Park is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainbow Park
  • Stone Creek
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Stone Creek is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Creek
  • Twin Brooks
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Twin Brooks is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Brooks
  • Twin Creek
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Twin Creek is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Creek
  • Willow Wood
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Willow Wood is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Wood

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

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

  • Spartanburg, which is the Seat of Spartanburg County, lies just to the South Southeast.
  • Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 90 miles [144.8 km]<1> to the southeast (SE). If you could drive a straight line from Boiling Springs to Columbia, with an average speed<4>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 6 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 380 miles [611.6 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 22 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,277 miles [10,101.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,978 miles [11,230 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,857 miles [7,816.6 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- Boiling Springs) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Boiling Springs, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 Boiling Springs 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.
<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 Boiling Springs 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 Boiling Springs. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.0467, Longitude: -81.9830    
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.882 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.284 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.003 degrees.