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 Fall Creek:
34.901488, -82.920422
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 Fall Creek
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 ten communities that are also named Fall Creek.
Within South Carolina, the name Fall Creek is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Colorado
San Miguel 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 Colorado community of Fall Creek [San Miguel County].
Idaho
Idaho County
This Fall Creek is located in Idaho County and lies 1,863 miles [2,998.2 km]<2> to the northwest of the Fall Creek that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Idaho County community of Fall Creek.
Illinois
Adams County
This Fall Creek is located in Adams County and lies 569 miles [915.7 km]<2> to the northwest of the Fall Creek that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Adams County community of Fall Creek.
North Carolina
Chatham 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 North Carolina community of Fall Creek [Chatham County].
Yadkin County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Fall Creek [Yadkin County].
Tennessee
Bedford County
This Fall Creek is located in Bedford County and lies 209 miles [336.4 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Fall Creek that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bedford County community of Fall Creek.
Sullivan County
This Fall Creek is located in Sullivan County and lies 115 miles [185.1 km] to the north northeast of the Fall Creek that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sullivan County community of Fall Creek.
Texas
Hood County
This Fall Creek is located in Hood County and lies 863 miles [1,388.9 km]<2> to the west of the Fall Creek that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hood County community of Fall Creek.
Virginia
Pittsylvania 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 Virginia community of Fall Creek [Pittsylvania County].
Wisconsin
Eau Claire County
This Fall Creek is located in Eau Claire County and lies 811 miles [1,305.2 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Fall Creek that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Eau Claire County community of Fall Creek.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fall Creek ...
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 Fall Creek to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Fall Creek and extending to:
Walhalla, which is the Seat of Oconee County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<2> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Fall Creek to Walhalla, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 124 miles [199.6 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 426 miles [685.6 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,323 miles [10,175.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,027 miles [11,308.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,905 miles [7,893.8 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 Fall Creek 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>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fall Creek) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Fall Creek 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 Fall Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.9015, Longitude: -82.9204 In this case, the coordinates for Fall Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.428 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.891 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.414 degrees.