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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 Hillbrook Forest, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hillbrook Forest 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 Hillbrook Forest:
- 34.974013, -81.876492
- 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 Hillbrook Forest
- 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 Spartanburg County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Spartanburg County
- Since Hillbrook Forest is near Cherokee County and also Union County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Cherokee County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Union 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 Hillbrook Forest
Communities Also Named Hillbrook Forest ...
We found one communities that are also named Hillbrook Forest.
Within South Carolina, the name Hillbrook Forest is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, there is another community also named Hillbrook Forest in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Virginia
- Fairfax 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 Virginia community of Hillbrook Forest [Fairfax County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Hillbrook Forest ...
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.
- Cherry Hill
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Cherry Hill is located in Spartanburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Hill
- Converse
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Cypress Creek
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Cypress Creek is located in Spartanburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Creek
- Enola
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Enola is located in Spartanburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enola
- Farmfields
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Farmfields is located in Spartanburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmfields
- Hartwell Courts
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Hartwell Courts is located in Spartanburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartwell Courts
- Hillcrest
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Hillcrest is located in Spartanburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillcrest
- Meadow Spring
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Meadow Spring is located in Spartanburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Spring
- Oak Creek
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Oak Creek is located in Spartanburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Creek
- Quail Hollow
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Quail Hollow is located in Spartanburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Hollow
- Zion Hill
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Zion Hill is located in Spartanburg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zion Hill
How Far From Hillbrook Forest 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 Hillbrook Forest to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Hillbrook Forest and extending to:
- Spartanburg, which is the Seat of Spartanburg County, lies just to the West Southwest.
- Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 82 miles [132 km]<3> to the southeast (SE). If you could drive a straight line from Hillbrook Forest to Columbia, with an average speed<4>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 380 miles [611.6 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 22 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,276 miles [10,100.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,976 miles [11,226.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,855 miles [7,813.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 Hillbrook Forest 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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hillbrook Forest) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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 Hillbrook Forest 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 Hillbrook Forest. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.9740, Longitude: -81.8765 In this case, the coordinates for Hillbrook Forest have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.819 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.202 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.982 degrees. |
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