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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Stone Station, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Stone Station and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • 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 Stone Station:
    • 34.846237, -81.925380
    • 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 Stone Station
  • 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 Spartanburg County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Spartanburg County
    • Since Stone Station is near Union County and also Laurens County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Union County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Laurens County
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Stone Station

Communities Also Named Stone Station ...

We found one communities that are also named Stone Station.

Within South Carolina, the name Stone Station is unique.

Beyond South Carolina, there is another community also named Stone Station in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Montana
      • Deer Lodge 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 Montana community of Stone Station [Deer Lodge County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Stone Station ...

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.

  • Camelot
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Camelot is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camelot
  • Cold Spring
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Cold Spring is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring
  • Fox Hunt
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Fox Hunt is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Hunt
  • Glenn Springs
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Glenn Springs is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenn Springs
  • Hartwell Courts
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Hartwell Courts is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartwell Courts
  • Hidden Hills
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Hidden Hills is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidden Hills
  • Hub City Courts
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Hub City Courts is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hub City Courts
  • Oak Creek
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Oak Creek is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Creek
  • Park Hills
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Park Hills is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Hills
  • Pebblebrook
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Pebblebrook is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pebblebrook
  • Poplar Springs
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Poplar Springs is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Springs
  • Quail Hollow
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Quail Hollow is located in Spartanburg County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Hollow
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • Raintree
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Raintree is located in Spartanburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raintree
    • River Edge
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • River Edge is located in Spartanburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Edge
    • Rosewood
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Rosewood is located in Spartanburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosewood
    • Summerhill
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Summerhill is located in Spartanburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerhill
    • Sundance
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Sundance is located in Spartanburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sundance
    • Twin Lakes
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Twin Lakes is located in Spartanburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Lakes
    • Walnut Grove
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Walnut Grove is located in Spartanburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove
    • Woodwind
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Woodwind is located in Spartanburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodwind

How Far From Stone Station to ...

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 Stone Station to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Stone Station and extending to:

  • Spartanburg, which is the Seat of Spartanburg County, lies just to the North.
  • Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 77 miles [123.9 km]<2> to the southeast (SE). If you could drive a straight line from Stone Station to Columbia, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 388 miles [624.4 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 22 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,284 miles [10,113.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,984 miles [11,239.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,863 miles [7,826.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 Stone Station 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Stone Station) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Stone Station 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 Stone Station. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.8462, Longitude: -81.9254       In this case, the coordinates for Stone Station have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.846 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.214 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.037 degrees.