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 Southgate:
33.938204, -81.224822
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 Southgate
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 twenty communities that are also named Southgate.
There is one other community in South Carolina that is also named Southgate.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of nineteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these nineteen communities, nineteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In South Carolina ...
Sumter County
This Southgate is located in Sumter County and lies 49 miles [78.9 km]<1> to the east of the Southgate that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sumter County community of Southgate.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Henry County
This Southgate is located in Henry County and lies 299 miles [481.2 km]<1> to the southwest of the Southgate that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henry County community of Southgate.
California
Santa Clara County
This Southgate is located in Santa Clara County and lies 2,290 miles [3,685.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Southgate that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Santa Clara County community of Southgate.
Florida
Sarasota County
This Southgate is located in Sarasota County and lies 464 miles [746.7 km]<1> to the south of the Southgate that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sarasota County community of Southgate.
Georgia
Dougherty County
This Southgate is located in Dougherty County and lies 238 miles [383 km]<1> to the southwest of the Southgate that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dougherty County community of Southgate.
Hall County
This Southgate is located in Hall County and lies 154 miles [247.8 km] to the west of the Southgate that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hall County community of Southgate.
Illinois
Cook 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 Illinois community of Southgate [Cook County].
Ogle County
This Southgate is located in Ogle County and lies 695 miles [1,118.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Southgate that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ogle County community of Southgate.
Indiana
LaPorte 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 Indiana community of Southgate [LaPorte County].
Kentucky
Campbell County
This Southgate is located in Campbell County and lies 397 miles [638.9 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Southgate that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Campbell County community of Southgate.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Southgate is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 440 miles [708.1 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Southgate that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Southgate.
Saint Mary's County
This Southgate is located in Saint Mary's County and lies 400 miles [643.7 km] to the northeast of the Southgate that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Mary's County community of Southgate.
Michigan
Wayne County
This Southgate is located in Wayne County and lies 580 miles [933.4 km]<1> to the north of the Southgate that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Southgate.
North Carolina
Craven County
This Southgate is located in Craven County and lies 248 miles [399.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Southgate that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Craven County community of Southgate.
Wake County
This Southgate is located in Wake County and lies 194 miles [312.2 km] to the northeast of the Southgate that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wake County community of Southgate.
Ohio
Clark County
This Southgate is located in Clark County and lies 435 miles [700.1 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Southgate that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of Southgate.
Ontario
This Southgate lies 634 miles [1,020.3 km]<1> to the north of the Southgate that is located in Lexington County.
Virginia
Montgomery County
This Southgate is located in Montgomery County and lies 231 miles [371.8 km]<1> to the north of the Southgate that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Southgate.
Washington
Pierce 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 Washington community of Southgate [Pierce County].
Thurston County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Southgate [Thurston County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Southgate ...
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 & 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 Southgate to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Southgate and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could walk a straight line from Southgate to Columbia, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 413 miles [664.7 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 17 days and walking would take 24 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,294 miles [10,129.2 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 4,870 miles [7,837.5 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- Southgate) 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 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 Southgate 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 Southgate 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 Southgate. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9382, Longitude: -81.2248 In this case, the coordinates for Southgate have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.43 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.606 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.021 degrees.