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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.

  • Weather ...
  • 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.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Pleasant Farm
  • 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:
    • Waymark.com

Communities Also Named Pleasant Farm ...

We found one communities that share the name 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)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forest Fields have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Fields
    • Forest Fields is located in Beaufort County
  • Green Pond
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Green Pond have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Pond
    • Green Pond is located in Beaufort County
  • Irongate
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Irongate have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irongate
    • Irongate is located in Beaufort County
  • Mink Point Plantation
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mink Point Plantation have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mink Point Plantation
    • Mink Point Plantation is located in Beaufort County
  • Peace Haven
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peace Haven have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peace Haven
    • Peace Haven is located in Beaufort County
  • Quail Ridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Quail Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Ridge
    • Quail Ridge is located in Beaufort County
  • River Reach
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for River Reach have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Reach
    • River Reach is located in Beaufort County
  • Salt Creek
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Salt Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salt Creek
    • Salt Creek is located in Beaufort County
  • Shell Point
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shell Point have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell Point
    • Shell Point is located in Beaufort County
  • Shell Point park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shell Point park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell Point park
    • Shell Point park is located in Beaufort County
  • Tanglewood
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tanglewood have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tanglewood
    • Tanglewood is located in Beaufort County

How Far From Pleasant Farm 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 Pleasant Farm to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> 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]<3> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Pleasant Farm to Columbia, with an average speed<4>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<5> 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).<6>
  • 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).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,914 miles [7,908.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Pleasant Farm. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Beaufort County: www.co.beaufort.sc.us/

The official website for State of South Carolina: https://sc.gov/

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Pleasant Farm) to Point B.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).
<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 Pleasant Farm to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.144 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.059 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.271 degrees.




 

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