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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 Hollywood Hills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hollywood Hills 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 Hollywood Hills:
- 34.079598, -81.018702
- 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 Hollywood Hills
- 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 Richland County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Richland County
- Since Hollywood Hills is near Lexington County and also Lancaster County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lexington County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lancaster 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 Hollywood Hills
Communities Also Named Hollywood Hills ...
We found one communities that are also named Hollywood Hills.
Within South Carolina, the name Hollywood Hills is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, there is another community also named Hollywood Hills in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Florida
- Broward 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 Hollywood Hills [Broward County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Hollywood Hills ...
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.
- Apple Valley
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Apple Valley is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apple Valley
- Booker Washington Heights
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Brickyard Village
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Brickyard Village is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brickyard Village
- Butchertown ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Butchertown is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butchertown
- Crane Forest
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Crane Forest is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crane Forest
- Dentsville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Edinburgh
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Edinburgh is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edinburgh
- Elm Abode
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Elm Abode is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elm Abode
- Emerald Valley
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Emerald Valley is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emerald Valley
- Evergreen Park
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Evergreen Park is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen Park
- Forest Trace
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Forest Trace is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Trace
- Foxhall
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Foxhall is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxhall
- Continue List (12 more) ...
- Frost
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Frost is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frost
- Jiggs
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Jiggs is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jiggs
- Kingswood
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Kingswood is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingswood
- Meadow Lake
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Meadow Lake is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Lake
- Munster
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Munster is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Munster
- Ravenwood
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Ravenwood is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravenwood
- Riverside Forest
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Riverside Forest is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside Forest
- Rockbridge
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Rockbridge is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockbridge
- Rockgate
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Rockgate is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockgate
- Sandwood
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Sandwood is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandwood
- Springwood
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Springwood is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springwood
- Tanglewood
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Tanglewood is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tanglewood
How Far From Hollywood Hills to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Hollywood Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Hollywood Hills and extending to:
- Columbia, which is the Seat of Richland County, lies just to the South.
- Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies just to the south (S).
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 399 miles [642.1 km]<3> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Hollywood Hills to White House, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 23 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 16 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,279 miles [10,105.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,973 miles [11,222 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Hollywood Hills 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Hollywood Hills) 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 Hollywood Hills 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 Hollywood Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.0796, Longitude: -81.0187 In this case, the coordinates for Hollywood Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.315 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.494 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.904 degrees. |
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