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 Coldstream:
34.066816, -81.207597
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 Coldstream
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 Lexington County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found nine communities that are also named Coldstream.
Within South Carolina, the name Coldstream is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of nine communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, five are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
British Columbia
This Coldstream lies 2,208 miles [3,553.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Coldstream that is located in Lexington County.
Georgia
Fulton County
This Coldstream is located in Fulton County and lies 183 miles [294.5 km]<1> to the west of the Coldstream that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Coldstream.
Kentucky
Jefferson County
This Coldstream is located in Jefferson County and lies 379 miles [609.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Coldstream that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Coldstream.
Maryland
Frederick County
This Coldstream is located in Frederick County and lies 427 miles [687.2 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Coldstream that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of Coldstream.
Harford County
This Coldstream is located in Harford County and lies 468 miles [753.2 km] to the north northeast of the Coldstream that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Coldstream.
New Brunswick
This Coldstream lies 1,111 miles [1,788 km]<1> to the northeast of the Coldstream that is located in Lexington County.
Nova Scotia
This Coldstream lies 1,213 miles [1,952.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Coldstream that is located in Lexington County.
Ohio
Hamilton 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 Coldstream [Hamilton County].
Ontario
This Coldstream lies 618 miles [994.6 km]<1> to the north of the Coldstream that is located in Lexington County.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Coldstream ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Coldstream to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Coldstream and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could walk a straight line from Coldstream to Columbia, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 405 miles [651.8 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 23 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,288 miles [10,119.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,982 miles [11,236.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,864 miles [7,827.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Coldstream) 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 Coldstream 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 Coldstream 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 Coldstream. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.0668, Longitude: -81.2076 In this case, the coordinates for Coldstream have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.422 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.615 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.979 degrees.