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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 Fairhill:
33.956819, -81.124262
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We found four communities that are also named Fairhill.
Within South Carolina, the name Fairhill is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maryland
Montgomery County
This Fairhill is located in Montgomery County and lies 425 miles [684 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Fairhill that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Fairhill.
Mississippi
Noxubee County
This Fairhill is located in Noxubee County and lies 439 miles [706.5 km]<1> to the west of the Fairhill that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Noxubee County community of Fairhill.
Pennsylvania
Bucks County
This Fairhill is located in Bucks County and lies 544 miles [875.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Fairhill that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bucks County community of Fairhill.
Philadelphia 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 Pennsylvania community of Fairhill [Philadelphia County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fairhill ...
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 Fairhill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Fairhill and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies just to the east northeast (ENE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 409 miles [658.2 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Fairhill to White House, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 24 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 16 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,289 miles [10,121.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,983 miles [11,238 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,865 miles [7,829.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Fairhill) 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 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 Fairhill 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 Fairhill 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 Fairhill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9568, Longitude: -81.1243 In this case, the coordinates for Fairhill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.373 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.543 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.978 degrees.