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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 Grindall, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Grindall and the surrounding area.
- 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 Grindall:
- 34.891242, -81.637320
- 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 Grindall
- 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 Grindall is near Union County and also Spartanburg County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Union County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Spartanburg 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 Grindall
Communities Also Named Grindall ...
We found one communities that are also named Grindall.
There is one other community in South Carolina that is also named Grindall.
Beyond South Carolina.
- Communities Located In South Carolina ...
- Union 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 Grindall [Union County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Grindall ...
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.
- Beauty Spot ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Beauty Spot is located in York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beauty Spot
- Flat Rock ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Flat Rock is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Rock
- Jonesville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Kelly
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Kelly is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelly
- Kennedy Mill
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Kennedy Mill is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennedy Mill
- Maryville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Maryville is located in Spartanburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maryville
- Mean Crossroads
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Mean Crossroads is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mean Crossroads
- Meansville ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Meansville is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meansville
- Pine Tree ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Pine Tree is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Tree
- Thicketty
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Thicketty is located in Cherokee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thicketty
How Far From Grindall 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 Grindall to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic<3> community of Grindall once stood, the straight-line distance<4> beginning in Grindall and extending to:
- Gaffney, which is the Seat of Cherokee County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<4> to the north. If you could walk a straight line from Grindall to Gaffney, with an average speed<5> 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 70 miles [112.7 km] to the south southeast (SSE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take about three full days and walking would take three full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 375 miles [603.5 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take 6 hours, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 22 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,269 miles [10,089 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,969 miles [11,215.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,848 miles [7,802.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Grindall 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Grindall, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Grindall) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | 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 Grindall 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 Grindall. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.8912, Longitude: -81.6373 In this case, the coordinates for Grindall have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.679 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.029 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.912 degrees. |
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