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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 Hardeeville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hardeeville 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 Hardeeville:
    • 32.283657, -81.076707
    • 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 Hardeeville
  • 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 Beaufort County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Beaufort County
    • Since Hardeeville is near Jasper County and also Effingham County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Jasper County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Effingham 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 Hardeeville

Communities Also Named Hardeeville ...

We found one communities that are also named Hardeeville.

Within South Carolina, the name Hardeeville is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Brevard 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 Florida community of Hardeeville [Brevard County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Hardeeville ...

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.

  • Birds
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Birds is located in Effingham County (GA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birds
  • Cherry Point Landing
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Cherry Point Landing is located in Beaufort County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Point Landing
  • Coldbrook
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Coldbrook is located in Effingham County (GA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coldbrook
  • Cook Landing
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Cook Landing is located in Jasper County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cook Landing
  • Ebenezer
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Ebenezer is located in Effingham County (GA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ebenezer
  • Good Hope Landing
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Good Hope Landing is located in Jasper County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Hope Landing
  • Jasper
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Jasper is located in Jasper County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jasper
  • Limehouse
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Limehouse is located in Jasper County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limehouse
  • Mill Stone Landing
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Mill Stone Landing is located in Jasper County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Stone Landing
  • Mulberry Grove
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Mulberry Grove is located in Chatham County (GA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mulberry Grove
  • Switzerland
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Switzerland is located in Jasper County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Switzerland

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

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

  • Beaufort, which is the Seat of Beaufort County, lies 25 miles [40.2 km]<2> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Hardeeville to Beaufort, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
  • Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 118 miles [189.9 km] to the north (N). 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 509 miles [819.2 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 20 days and walking would take 29 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,362 miles [10,238.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,047 miles [11,341 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,934 miles [7,940.5 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 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 Hardeeville 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- Hardeeville) 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 Hardeeville 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 Hardeeville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.2837, Longitude: -81.0767    
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.311 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.232 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.414 degrees.