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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 The Farms, we use the following websites to find information relevant to The Farms 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 The Farms:
    • 32.907674, -80.006199
    • 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 The Farms
  • 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 Berkeley County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Berkeley County
    • Since The Farms is near Charleston County and also Dorchester County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Charleston County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Dorchester 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 The Farms

Communities Also Named The Farms ...

We found one communities that are also named The Farms.

Within South Carolina, the name The Farms is unique.

Beyond South Carolina, there is another community also named The Farms in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Kansas
      • McPherson 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 Kansas community of The Farms [McPherson County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near The Farms ...

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.

  • Dominion Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Dominion Hills is located in Berkeley County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dominion Hills
  • Ferndale
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Ferndale is located in Charleston County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ferndale
  • Forestdale
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Forestdale is located in Charleston County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forestdale
  • Gold Cup Springs
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Gold Cup Springs is located in Berkeley County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Cup Springs
  • Lakeview
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Lakeview is located in Berkeley County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
  • Liberty Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Liberty Hills is located in Charleston County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Hills
  • Liberty Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Liberty Park is located in Charleston County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Park
  • Oak Grove
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Oak Grove is located in Charleston County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
  • Shady Grove
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Shady Grove is located in Charleston County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove
  • Singing Pines
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Singing Pines is located in Charleston County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Singing Pines
  • Wildwood
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Wildwood is located in Charleston County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood

How Far From The Farms 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 The Farms to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in The Farms and extending to:

  • Moncks Corner, which is the Seat of Berkeley County, lies 19 miles [30.6 km]<2> to the north. If you could walk a straight line from The Farms to Moncks Corner, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 hours.
  • Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 95 miles [152.9 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 445 miles [716.2 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 18 days and walking would take 26 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,286 miles [10,116.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,972 miles [11,220.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,858 miles [7,818.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 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 The Farms 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- The Farms) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 The Farms 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 The Farms. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.9077, Longitude: -80.0062       In this case, the coordinates for The Farms have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.731 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.655 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.861 degrees.