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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 Jennys, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Jennys 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 Jennys:
- 33.026270, -81.113716
- 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 Jennys
- 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 Allendale County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Allendale County
- Since Jennys is near Hampton County and also Bamberg County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Hampton County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Bamberg 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 Jennys
Communities Also Named Jennys ...
We found one communities that are also named Jennys.
There is one other community in South Carolina that is also named Jennys.
Beyond South Carolina.
- Communities Located In South Carolina ...
- Barnwell 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 Jennys [Barnwell County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Jennys ...
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.
- Clear Pond
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Clear Pond is located in Bamberg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Pond
- Crocketville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Dukes
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Dukes is located in Hampton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dukes
- Grays Crossroads
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Grays Crossroads is located in Allendale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grays Crossroads
- Halls Mill
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Halls Mill is located in Hampton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halls Mill
- Hughes
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Hughes is located in Bamberg County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hughes
- Lodge
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Miley
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Pond Town
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Pond Town is located in Hampton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pond Town
How Far From Jennys 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 community such as Jennys to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Jennys and extending to:
- Allendale, which is the Seat of Allendale County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> to the west. If you could walk a straight line from Jennys to Allendale, with an average speed<4> 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 67 miles [107.8 km] to the north (N). 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 464 miles [746.7 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 19 days and walking would take 27 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,330 miles [10,187.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,020 miles [11,297.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,904 miles [7,892.2 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 Jennys 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' (or 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- Jennys) 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 Jennys 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 Jennys. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.0263, Longitude: -81.1137 In this case, the coordinates for Jennys have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.35 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.384 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.23 degrees. |
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