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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 Foxcroft, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Foxcroft 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 Foxcroft:
    • 34.866784, -82.302061
    • 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 Foxcroft
  • 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 Greenville County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Greenville County
    • Since Foxcroft is near Spartanburg County and also Pickens County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Spartanburg County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Pickens 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 Foxcroft

Communities Also Named Foxcroft ...

We found eight communities that are also named Foxcroft.

There is one other community in South Carolina that is also named Foxcroft.

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

  • Communities Located In South Carolina ...
    • Florence County
      • This Foxcroft is located in Florence County and lies 147 miles [236.6 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Foxcroft that is located in Greenville County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Florence County community of Foxcroft.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Troup County
      • This Foxcroft is located in Troup County and lies 202 miles [325.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the Foxcroft that is located in Greenville County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Troup County community of Foxcroft.
    • Illinois
      • Lake County
      • This Foxcroft is located in Lake County and lies 592 miles [952.7 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Foxcroft that is located in Greenville County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lake County community of Foxcroft.
    • Maine
      • Piscataquis 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 Maine community of Foxcroft [Piscataquis County].
    • Maryland
      • Frederick County
      • This Foxcroft is located in Frederick County and lies 411 miles [661.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Foxcroft that is located in Greenville County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of Foxcroft.
    • North Carolina
      • Mecklenburg County
      • This Foxcroft is located in Mecklenburg County and lies 86 miles [138.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Foxcroft that is located in Greenville County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mecklenburg County community of Foxcroft.
      • Wake County
      • This Foxcroft is located in Wake County and lies 221 miles [355.7 km] to the east northeast of the Foxcroft that is located in Greenville County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wake County community of Foxcroft.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Delaware County
      • This Foxcroft is located in Delaware County and lies 519 miles [835.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Foxcroft that is located in Greenville County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Delaware County community of Foxcroft.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Foxcroft ...

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.

  • Cane Brake
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Cane Brake is located in Greenville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cane Brake
  • Cherokee Forest
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Cherokee Forest is located in Greenville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee Forest
  • Dove Tree
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Dove Tree is located in Greenville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dove Tree
  • Green Fields
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Green Fields is located in Greenville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Fields
  • Green Forest
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Green Forest is located in Greenville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Forest
  • Grey Fox Run
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Grey Fox Run is located in Greenville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grey Fox Run
  • Hermitage Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Hermitage Hills is located in Greenville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hermitage Hills
  • Kingsgate
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Kingsgate is located in Greenville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsgate
  • Mountain Brook
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Mountain Brook is located in Greenville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Brook
  • Orchard Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Orchard Park is located in Greenville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchard Park
  • Quail Ridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Quail Ridge is located in Greenville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Ridge
  • Riverdowns
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Riverdowns is located in Greenville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverdowns
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Rosedale
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Rosedale is located in Greenville County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosedale
    • Silver Leaf
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Silver Leaf is located in Greenville County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Leaf
    • Spring Forest
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Spring Forest is located in Greenville County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Forest
    • Sugar Creek
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Sugar Creek is located in Greenville County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Creek
    • Sugar Mill
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Sugar Mill is located in Greenville County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Mill
    • Timberlake
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Timberlake is located in Greenville County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timberlake

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

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

  • Greenville, which is the Seat of Greenville County, lies just to the West.
  • Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 93 miles [149.7 km]<1> to the southeast (SE). If you could drive a straight line from Foxcroft to Columbia, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 402 miles [647 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 23 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,299 miles [10,137.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,000 miles [11,265.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,879 miles [7,852 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 from Point A (ie- Foxcroft) 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 Foxcroft 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 Foxcroft 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 Foxcroft. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.8668, Longitude: -82.3021       In this case, the coordinates for Foxcroft have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.065 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.469 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.179 degrees.