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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 Pleasant Farm, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Pleasant Farm 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 Pleasant Farm:
- 32.409916, -80.769829
- 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 Pleasant Farm
- 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 Beaufort County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Beaufort County
- Since Pleasant Farm is near Jasper County and also Colleton County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Jasper County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Colleton 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 Pleasant Farm
Communities Also Named Pleasant Farm ...
We found one communities that are also named Pleasant Farm.
Within South Carolina, the name Pleasant Farm is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, there is another community also named Pleasant Farm in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Missouri
- Miller 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 Missouri community of Pleasant Farm [Miller County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Pleasant Farm ...
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.
- Forest Fields
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Forest Fields is located in Beaufort County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Fields
- Green Pond
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Green Pond is located in Beaufort County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Pond
- Irongate
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Irongate is located in Beaufort County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irongate
- Mink Point Plantation
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Peace Haven
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Peace Haven is located in Beaufort County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peace Haven
- Quail Ridge
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Quail Ridge is located in Beaufort County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Ridge
- River Reach
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- River Reach is located in Beaufort County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Reach
- Salt Creek
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Salt Creek is located in Beaufort County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salt Creek
- Shell Point
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Shell Point is located in Beaufort County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell Point
- Shell Point park
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Shell Point park is located in Beaufort County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell Point park
- Tanglewood
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Tanglewood is located in Beaufort County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tanglewood
How Far From Pleasant Farm to ...
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 Pleasant Farm to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Pleasant Farm and extending to:
- Beaufort, which is the Seat of Beaufort County, lies just to the East Northeast.
- Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 110 miles [177 km]<2> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Pleasant Farm to Columbia, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 494 miles [795 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 20 days and walking would take 28 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,342 miles [10,206.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,028 miles [11,310.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,914 miles [7,908.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 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 Pleasant Farm 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> | 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- Pleasant Farm) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Pleasant Farm 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 Pleasant Farm. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.4099, Longitude: -80.7698 In this case, the coordinates for Pleasant Farm have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.144 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.059 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.271 degrees. |
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