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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 Coronaca, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Coronaca and the surrounding area.
- 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 Coronaca:
- 34.259846, -82.094285
- 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 Coronaca
- 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 Greenwood County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Greenwood County
- Since Coronaca is near Laurens County and also Abbeville County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Laurens County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Abbeville 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 Coronaca
Communities Also Named Coronaca ...
We found one communities that are also named Coronaca.
There is one other community in South Carolina that is also named Coronaca.
Beyond South Carolina.
- Communities Located In South Carolina ...
- Abbeville County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Coronaca [Abbeville County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Coronaca ...
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.
- Cherokee Hills
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Cherokee Hills is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee Hills
- Chiles Ferry
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Chiles Ferry is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chiles Ferry
- Emerald Place
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Emerald Place is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emerald Place
- Greenwood
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Harbor Heights
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Harbor Heights is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor Heights
- Isle of Pines
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Isle of Pines is located in Laurens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isle of Pines
- Lake Shores
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Lake Shores is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Shores
- Magnolia Place
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Magnolia Place is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia Place
- Raintree
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Raintree is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raintree
- Rock Creek
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Rock Creek is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek
- Stony Point
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Stony Point is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Point
- Wheatfield
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Wheatfield is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheatfield
- Windtree
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Windtree is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windtree
How Far From Coronaca 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 Coronaca to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Coronaca and extending to:
- Greenwood, which is the Seat of Greenwood County, lies just to the Southwest.
- Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 63 miles [101.4 km]<3> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could walk a straight line from Coronaca to Columbia, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 425 miles [684 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 17 days and walking would take 25 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,317 miles [10,166.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,015 miles [11,289.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,895 miles [7,877.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Coronaca 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. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Coronaca) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Coronaca 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 Coronaca. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.2598, Longitude: -82.0943 In this case, the coordinates for Coronaca have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.934 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.231 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.264 degrees. |
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