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website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
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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 Simmonsville:
33.419612, -79.178101
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.
We found six communities that share the name Simmonsville.
There is one other community in South Carolina which is also named Simmonsville.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Located In South Carolina ...
Berkeley County
This Simmonsville is located in Berkeley County and lies 29 miles [46.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Simmonsville that is located in Georgetown County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Berkeley County community of Simmonsville.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Mississippi
Pike County
This Simmonsville is located in Pike County and lies 670 miles [1,078.3 km]<1> to the west of the Simmonsville that is located in Georgetown County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pike County community of Simmonsville.
Rhode Island
Providence County
This Simmonsville is located in Providence County and lies 714 miles [1,149.1 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Simmonsville that is located in Georgetown County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Providence County community of Simmonsville.
Texas
Bell County
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 Texas community of Simmonsville [Bell County].
Newton County
This Simmonsville is located in Newton County and lies 860 miles [1,384 km]<1> to the west of the Simmonsville that is located in Georgetown County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Newton County community of Simmonsville.
Virginia
Craig County
This Simmonsville is located in Craig County and lies 281 miles [452.2 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Simmonsville that is located in Georgetown County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Craig County community of Simmonsville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Simmonsville ...
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.
Birds Nest (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Birds Nest have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Simmonsville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Simmonsville and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 113 miles [181.9 km]<1> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Simmonsville 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 396 miles [637.3 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 23 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,227 miles [10,021.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,912 miles [11,123.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,799 miles [7,723.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
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- Simmonsville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Simmonsville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.4196, Longitude: -79.1781 In this case, the coordinates for Simmonsville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Simmonsville 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>
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.
<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 Simmonsville 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 309.278 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.207 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.414 degrees.