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 Pepper Ridge:
34.290432, -79.845896
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 Pepper Ridge
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 Darlington County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Pepper Ridge.
There is one other community in South Carolina that is also named Pepper Ridge.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In South Carolina ...
Kershaw County
This Pepper Ridge is located in Kershaw County and lies 49 miles [78.9 km]<1> to the west of the Pepper Ridge that is located in Darlington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kershaw County community of Pepper Ridge.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arizona
Maricopa County
This Pepper Ridge is located in Maricopa County and lies 1,835 miles [2,953.1 km]<1> to the west of the Pepper Ridge that is located in Darlington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Maricopa County community of Pepper Ridge.
Delaware
New Castle County
This Pepper Ridge is located in New Castle County and lies 439 miles [706.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Pepper Ridge that is located in Darlington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of Pepper Ridge.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Pepper Ridge ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Pepper Ridge to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Pepper Ridge and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 70 miles [112.7 km]<1> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could drive a straight line from Pepper Ridge to Columbia, with an average speed<2>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 three full days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 354 miles [569.7 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 21 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,218 miles [10,006.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,910 miles [11,120.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,793 miles [7,713.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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 from Point A (ie- Pepper Ridge) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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.
<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 Pepper Ridge 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 Pepper Ridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.2904, Longitude: -79.8459 In this case, the coordinates for Pepper Ridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.652 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.763 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.401 degrees.