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 Springbrook:
34.666767, -82.962926
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 Springbrook
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 Oconee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found fourteen communities that are also named Springbrook.
Within South Carolina, the name Springbrook is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of fourteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, ten are located in the United States and six are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Tuscaloosa County
This Springbrook is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 281 miles [452.2 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Springbrook that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of Springbrook.
Alberta
This Springbrook lies 1,941 miles [3,123.7 km]<1> to the northwest of the Springbrook that is located in Oconee County.
Georgia
Cobb County
This Springbrook is located in Cobb County and lies 113 miles [181.9 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Springbrook that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cobb County community of Springbrook.
Iowa
Jackson County
This Springbrook is located in Jackson County and lies 657 miles [1,057.3 km]<1> to the northwest of the Springbrook that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Springbrook.
Maryland
Montgomery County
This Springbrook is located in Montgomery County and lies 447 miles [719.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Springbrook that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Springbrook.
North Dakota
Williams County
This Springbrook is located in Williams County and lies 1,407 miles [2,264.3 km]<1> to the northwest of the Springbrook that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Williams County community of Springbrook.
Ohio
Erie County
This Springbrook is located in Erie County and lies 467 miles [751.6 km]<1> to the north of the Springbrook that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Erie County community of Springbrook.
Ontario
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 Ontario community of Springbrook.
Oregon
Yamhill County
This Springbrook is located in Yamhill County and lies 2,213 miles [3,561.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Springbrook that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yamhill County community of Springbrook.
Prince Edward Island
This Springbrook lies 1,300 miles [2,092.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Springbrook that is located in Oconee County.
Quebec
This Springbrook lies 1,033 miles [1,662.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Springbrook that is located in Oconee County.
Tennessee
Blount County
This Springbrook is located in Blount County and lies 97 miles [156.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Springbrook that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blount County community of Springbrook.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Springbrook is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,633 miles [2,628.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Springbrook that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Springbrook.
Wisconsin
Washburn County
This Springbrook is located in Washburn County and lies 903 miles [1,453.2 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Springbrook that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washburn County community of Springbrook.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Springbrook ...
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 & 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 Springbrook to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Springbrook and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 119 miles [191.5 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Springbrook to Columbia, with an average speed<3>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 438 miles [704.9 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 18 days and walking would take 25 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,336 miles [10,196.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,038 miles [11,326.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,917 miles [7,913.1 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- Springbrook) 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 Springbrook 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 Springbrook 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 Springbrook. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6668, Longitude: -82.9629 In this case, the coordinates for Springbrook have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.448 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.88 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.494 degrees.