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 Rollingwood:
34.010147, -81.278434
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 Rollingwood
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 fifteen communities that are also named Rollingwood.
Within South Carolina, the name Rollingwood is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of fifteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Tuscaloosa County
This Rollingwood is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 363 miles [584.2 km]<1> to the west of the Rollingwood that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of Rollingwood.
California
Contra Costa County
This Rollingwood is located in Contra Costa County and lies 2,291 miles [3,687 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Rollingwood that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Contra Costa County community of Rollingwood.
Georgia
Clarke County
This Rollingwood is located in Clarke County and lies 121 miles [194.7 km]<1> to the west of the Rollingwood that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clarke County community of Rollingwood.
Floyd County
This Rollingwood is located in Floyd County and lies 227 miles [365.3 km] to the west of the Rollingwood that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Floyd County community of Rollingwood.
Maryland
Montgomery County
This Rollingwood is located in Montgomery County and lies 415 miles [667.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Rollingwood that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Rollingwood.
North Carolina
Cleveland County
This Rollingwood is located in Cleveland County and lies 90 miles [144.8 km]<1> to the north of the Rollingwood that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cleveland County community of Rollingwood.
Cumberland County
This Rollingwood is located in Cumberland County and lies 154 miles [247.8 km] to the east northeast of the Rollingwood that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Rollingwood.
Johnston County
This Rollingwood is located in Johnston County and lies 196 miles [315.4 km] to the northeast of the Rollingwood that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Johnston County community of Rollingwood.
Pitt County
This Rollingwood is located in Pitt County and lies 244 miles [392.7 km] to the east northeast of the Rollingwood that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pitt County community of Rollingwood.
Wake County
This Rollingwood is located in Wake County and lies 195 miles [313.8 km] to the northeast of the Rollingwood that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wake County community of Rollingwood.
Tennessee
Hamilton County
This Rollingwood is located in Hamilton County and lies 235 miles [378.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Rollingwood that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Rollingwood.
Texas
Travis County
This Rollingwood is located in Travis County and lies 997 miles [1,604.5 km]<1> to the west of the Rollingwood that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Travis County community of Rollingwood.
Virginia
Fairfax County
This Rollingwood is located in Fairfax County and lies 397 miles [638.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Rollingwood that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfax County community of Rollingwood.
Isle of Wight County
This Rollingwood is located in Isle of Wight County and lies 334 miles [537.5 km] to the northeast of the Rollingwood that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Isle of Wight County community of Rollingwood.
Portsmouth City
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 Virginia community of Rollingwood [Portsmouth City].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Rollingwood ...
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 Rollingwood to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Rollingwood and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could walk a straight line from Rollingwood to Columbia, 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.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 411 miles [661.4 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 24 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,293 miles [10,127.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,988 miles [11,246.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,869 miles [7,835.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Rollingwood) 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 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 Rollingwood 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 Rollingwood 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 Rollingwood. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.0101, Longitude: -81.2784 In this case, the coordinates for Rollingwood have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.462 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.653 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.021 degrees.