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 Morningside Heights:
34.656771, -82.857922
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 Morningside Heights
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 Oconee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
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 Morningside Heights
Communities Also Named Morningside Heights ...
We found five communities that are also named Morningside Heights.
Within South Carolina, the name Morningside Heights is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Lauderdale County
This Morningside Heights is located in Lauderdale County and lies 269 miles [432.9 km]<1> to the west of the Morningside Heights that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lauderdale County community of Morningside Heights.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Morningside Heights is located in Hillsborough County and lies 459 miles [738.7 km]<1> to the south of the Morningside Heights that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Morningside Heights.
Georgia
Hall County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Morningside Heights [Hall County].
Maryland
Baltimore County
This Morningside Heights is located in Baltimore County and lies 469 miles [754.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the Morningside Heights that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Morningside Heights.
New York
New York County
This Morningside Heights is located in New York County and lies 644 miles [1,036.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Morningside Heights that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New York County community of Morningside Heights.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Morningside Heights ...
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.
Adams Crossing (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
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 Morningside Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Morningside Heights and extending to:
Walhalla, which is the Seat of Oconee County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> to the west northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Morningside Heights to Walhalla, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 113 miles [181.9 km] to the east southeast (ESE). 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 435 miles [700.1 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 17 days and walking would take 25 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,332 miles [10,190.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,034 miles [11,320.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,912 miles [7,905.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Morningside Heights) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Morningside Heights 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.
<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 Morningside Heights 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 Morningside Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6568, Longitude: -82.8579 In this case, the coordinates for Morningside Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.386 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.808 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.455 degrees.