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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 Grassy Pond, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Grassy Pond 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 Grassy Pond:
    • 35.137071, -81.672320
    • 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 Grassy Pond
  • 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 Cherokee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cherokee County
    • Since Grassy Pond is near Cleveland County and also Rutherford County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cleveland County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Rutherford 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 Grassy Pond

Communities Also Named Grassy Pond ...

We found one communities that are also named Grassy Pond.

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

Beyond South Carolina.

  • Communities Located In South Carolina ...
    • Spartanburg 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 South Carolina community of Grassy Pond [Spartanburg County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Grassy Pond ...

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.

  • Buffalo
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Buffalo is located in Cherokee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo
  • Cherokee Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Cherokee Hills is located in Cherokee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee Hills
  • Erwinsville ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Erwinsville is located in Cleveland County (NC)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erwinsville
  • Flint Hill ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Flint Hill is located in Cleveland County (NC)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint Hill
  • Garden Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Garden Park is located in Cherokee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden Park
  • Glenhaven
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Glenhaven is located in Cherokee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenhaven
  • Harmony Hill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Harmony Hill is located in Cherokee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Hill
  • Hillbrook
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Hillbrook is located in Cherokee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillbrook
  • Jones Ferry
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jones Ferry is located in Cleveland County (NC)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones Ferry
  • Maplewood
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Maplewood is located in Cherokee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maplewood
  • Maud
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Maud is located in Cherokee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maud
  • Pleasant Meadows
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Pleasant Meadows is located in Cherokee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Meadows
  • Quail Hollow
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Quail Hollow is located in Cherokee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Hollow
  • Rosehill Park
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Rosehill Park is located in Cherokee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosehill Park

How Far From Grassy Pond to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Grassy Pond to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Gaffney, which is the Seat of Cherokee County, lies just to the South Southeast.
  • Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 86 miles [138.4 km]<2> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could drive a straight line from Grassy Pond 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 5 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 364 miles [585.8 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take 6 hours, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 21 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,260 miles [10,074.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,960 miles [11,201 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,839 miles [7,787.6 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 Grassy Pond 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Grassy Pond) 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 Grassy Pond 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 Grassy Pond. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.1371, Longitude: -81.6723       In this case, the coordinates for Grassy Pond have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.702 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.091 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.855 degrees.