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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 Country Club Heights, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Country Club Heights 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 Country Club Heights:
    • 34.663759, -80.773682
    • 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 Country Club Heights
  • 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 Lancaster County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lancaster County
    • Since Country Club Heights is near Chester County and also Kershaw County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Chester County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Kershaw 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 Country Club Heights

Communities Also Named Country Club Heights ...

We found six communities that are also named Country Club Heights.

There is one other community in South Carolina that is also named Country Club Heights.

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

  • Communities Located In South Carolina ...
    • Marlboro County
      • This Country Club Heights is located in Marlboro County and lies 61 miles [98.2 km]<1> to the east of the Country Club Heights that is located in Lancaster County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marlboro County community of Country Club Heights.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Indiana
      • Madison County
      • This Country Club Heights is located in Madison County and lies 463 miles [745.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Country Club Heights that is located in Lancaster County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Country Club Heights.
    • Kentucky
      • Mason County
      • This Country Club Heights is located in Mason County and lies 321 miles [516.6 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Country Club Heights that is located in Lancaster County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mason County community of Country Club Heights.
    • New Mexico
      • Lincoln 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 New Mexico community of Country Club Heights [Lincoln County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Lancaster County
      • This Country Club Heights is located in Lancaster County and lies 447 miles [719.4 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Country Club Heights that is located in Lancaster County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lancaster County community of Country Club Heights.
    • Virginia
      • Frederick County
      • This Country Club Heights is located in Frederick County and lies 348 miles [560.1 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Country Club Heights that is located in Lancaster County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of Country Club Heights.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Country Club Heights ...

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.

  • Bell Town
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Bell Town is located in Lancaster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell Town
  • Crocketts Crossroad
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Crocketts Crossroad is located in Lancaster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crocketts Crossroad
  • Erwin
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Erwin is located in Lancaster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erwin
  • Grace
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Grace is located in Lancaster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grace
  • Green Peach Orchard
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Green Peach Orchard is located in Lancaster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Peach Orchard
  • Irwin
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Irwin is located in Lancaster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irwin
  • Jones Crossroads
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Jones Crossroads is located in Lancaster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones Crossroads
  • Pleasant Hill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Pleasant Hill is located in Lancaster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill
  • Smoke Rise
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Smoke Rise is located in Lancaster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smoke Rise

How Far From Country Club Heights 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 Country Club Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Country Club Heights and extending to:

  • Lancaster, which is the Seat of Lancaster County, lies just to the North.
  • Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 48 miles [77.2 km]<1> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could walk a straight line from Country Club Heights to Columbia, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take about three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of two days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 357 miles [574.5 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 21 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,242 miles [10,045.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,938 miles [11,165.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,819 miles [7,755.4 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Country Club Heights) 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 Country Club Heights 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 Country Club Heights 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 Country Club Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6638, Longitude: -80.7737       In this case, the coordinates for Country Club Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.18 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.424 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.643 degrees.