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 Dogwood Heights:
34.770654, -82.952648
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 Dogwood 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 Oconee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Dogwood Heights.
There is one other community in South Carolina that is also named Dogwood Heights.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In South Carolina ...
Anderson County
This Dogwood Heights is located in Anderson County and lies 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> to the southeast of the Dogwood Heights that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Dogwood Heights.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Tennessee
Roane County
This Dogwood Heights is located in Roane County and lies 121 miles [194.7 km]<1> to the northwest of the Dogwood Heights that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roane County community of Dogwood Heights.
Wayne County
This Dogwood Heights is located in Wayne County and lies 274 miles [441 km] to the west of the Dogwood Heights that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Dogwood Heights.
West Virginia
Greenbrier County
This Dogwood Heights is located in Greenbrier County and lies 252 miles [405.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Dogwood Heights that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenbrier County community of Dogwood Heights.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Dogwood 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.
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 Dogwood Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Dogwood Heights and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 121 miles [194.7 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Dogwood Heights 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 433 miles [696.8 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 17 days and walking would take 25 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,331 miles [10,188.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,034 miles [11,320.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,912 miles [7,905.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Dogwood Heights) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Dogwood 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 Dogwood Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.7707, Longitude: -82.9526 In this case, the coordinates for Dogwood Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.444 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.89 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.462 degrees.