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 Oak Grove Estates:
33.980706, -81.158152
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 Oak Grove Estates
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 Lexington County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Oak Grove Estates.
Within South Carolina, the name Oak Grove Estates is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jefferson County
This Oak Grove Estates is located in Jefferson County and lies 327 miles [526.3 km]<1> to the west of the Oak Grove Estates that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Oak Grove Estates.
Georgia
Cherokee County
This Oak Grove Estates is located in Cherokee County and lies 197 miles [317 km]<1> to the west of the Oak Grove Estates that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cherokee County community of Oak Grove Estates.
Louisiana
Saint Tammany Parish
This Oak Grove Estates is located in Saint Tammany Parish and lies 561 miles [902.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Oak Grove Estates that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Tammany Parish community of Oak Grove Estates.
Virginia
Goochland County
This Oak Grove Estates is located in Goochland County and lies 320 miles [515 km]<1> to the northeast of the Oak Grove Estates that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Goochland County community of Oak Grove Estates.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Oak Grove Estates ...
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 Oak Grove Estates to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Oak Grove Estates and extending to:
The White House (Washington, DC) is 409 miles [658.2 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Oak Grove Estates to White House, with an average speed<2>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 24 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 16 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,289 miles [10,121.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,983 miles [11,238 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,865 miles [7,829.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Oak Grove Estates) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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.
<3>
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 Oak Grove Estates 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 Oak Grove Estates. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9807, Longitude: -81.1582 In this case, the coordinates for Oak Grove Estates have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.393 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.569 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.984 degrees.