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 Huntington Place:
34.166545, -79.780619
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 Huntington Place
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 Florence County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Huntington Place.
Within South Carolina, the name Huntington Place is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Tuscaloosa County
This Huntington Place is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 452 miles [727.4 km]<1> to the west of the Huntington Place that is located in Florence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of Huntington Place.
Georgia
Fayette County
This Huntington Place is located in Fayette County and lies 278 miles [447.4 km]<1> to the west of the Huntington Place that is located in Florence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Huntington Place.
North Carolina
Durham County
This Huntington Place is located in Durham County and lies 140 miles [225.3 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Huntington Place that is located in Florence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Durham County community of Huntington Place.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Huntington Place is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,812 miles [2,916.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Huntington Place that is located in Florence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Huntington Place.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Huntington Place ...
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.
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 Huntington Place to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Huntington Place and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 72 miles [115.9 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Huntington Place 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 4 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 360 miles [579.4 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take 6 hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 21 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,221 miles [10,011.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,912 miles [11,123.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,795 miles [7,716.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
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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 from Point A (ie- Huntington Place) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
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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.
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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 Huntington Place 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 Huntington Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.1665, Longitude: -79.7806 In this case, the coordinates for Huntington Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.615 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.703 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.413 degrees.