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 Clearmont:
34.669264, -83.060430
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 Clearmont
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 Oconee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Clearmont.
Within South Carolina, the name Clearmont is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish
This Clearmont is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 547 miles [880.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Clearmont that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of Clearmont.
Missouri
Nodaway County
This Clearmont is located in Nodaway County and lies 768 miles [1,236 km]<1> to the northwest of the Clearmont that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nodaway County community of Clearmont.
Tennessee
Warren County
This Clearmont is located in Warren County and lies 180 miles [289.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Clearmont that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Clearmont.
Wyoming
Sheridan County
This Clearmont is located in Sheridan County and lies 1,410 miles [2,269.2 km]<1> to the northwest of the Clearmont that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sheridan County community of Clearmont.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Clearmont ...
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.
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 Clearmont to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Clearmont and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 124 miles [199.6 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Clearmont to Columbia, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 442 miles [711.3 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 18 days and walking would take 26 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,340 miles [10,203.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
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).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,921 miles [7,919.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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- Clearmont) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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.
<3>
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 Clearmont 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 Clearmont. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6693, Longitude: -83.0604 In this case, the coordinates for Clearmont have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.505 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.946 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.532 degrees.