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 South Hills:
34.687635, -81.607045
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 South Hills
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 Union County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found seven communities that are also named South Hills.
Within South Carolina, the name South Hills is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Kentucky
Kenton 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 Kentucky community of South Hills [Kenton County].
North Carolina
Cumberland County
This South Hills is located in Cumberland County and lies 152 miles [244.6 km]<2> to the east of the South Hills that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of South Hills.
Pennsylvania
Allegheny County
This South Hills is located in Allegheny County and lies 403 miles [648.6 km]<2> to the north of the South Hills that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allegheny County community of South Hills.
Tennessee
Blount County
This South Hills is located in Blount County and lies 152 miles [244.6 km]<2> to the west northwest of the South Hills that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blount County community of South Hills.
Cumberland County
This South Hills is located in Cumberland County and lies 209 miles [336.4 km] to the west northwest of the South Hills that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of South Hills.
West Virginia
Kanawha County
This South Hills is located in Kanawha County and lies 252 miles [405.6 km]<2> to the north of the South Hills that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kanawha County community of South Hills.
Monongalia County
This South Hills is located in Monongalia County and lies 352 miles [566.5 km] to the north northeast of the South Hills that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monongalia County community of South Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near South Hills ...
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.
Bishop Town ‑ Historic (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
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 South Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in South Hills and extending to:
Union, which is the Seat of Union County, lies just to the North Northwest.
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 57 miles [91.7 km]<2> to the southeast (SE). If you could walk a straight line from South Hills to Columbia, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 385 miles [619.6 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 22 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,277 miles [10,101.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,976 miles [11,226.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,855 miles [7,813.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 South Hills 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- South Hills) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 South Hills 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 South Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6876, Longitude: -81.6070 In this case, the coordinates for South Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.66 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.977 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.957 degrees.