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 Sweetbriar:
34.172656, -79.800063
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 Sweetbriar
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 Florence County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found seven communities that are also named Sweetbriar.
There is one other community in South Carolina that is also named Sweetbriar.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In South Carolina ...
Dorchester County
This Sweetbriar is located in Dorchester County and lies 83 miles [133.6 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Sweetbriar that is located in Florence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dorchester County community of Sweetbriar.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Shasta County
This Sweetbriar is located in Shasta County and lies 2,349 miles [3,780.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Sweetbriar that is located in Florence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shasta County community of Sweetbriar.
Georgia
Clayton County
This Sweetbriar is located in Clayton County and lies 263 miles [423.3 km]<1> to the west of the Sweetbriar that is located in Florence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clayton County community of Sweetbriar.
Columbia County
This Sweetbriar is located in Columbia County and lies 139 miles [223.7 km] to the west southwest of the Sweetbriar that is located in Florence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Sweetbriar.
Indiana
Hamilton County
This Sweetbriar is located in Hamilton County and lies 525 miles [844.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Sweetbriar that is located in Florence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Sweetbriar.
Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish
This Sweetbriar is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 710 miles [1,142.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Sweetbriar that is located in Florence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of Sweetbriar.
Ohio
Stark County
This Sweetbriar is located in Stark County and lies 468 miles [753.2 km]<1> to the north of the Sweetbriar that is located in Florence County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stark County community of Sweetbriar.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sweetbriar ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Sweetbriar to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sweetbriar and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 71 miles [114.3 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Sweetbriar 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 4 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 360 miles [579.4 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take 6 hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 21 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,221 miles [10,011.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,912 miles [11,123.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,795 miles [7,716.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Sweetbriar) 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.
<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.
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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 Sweetbriar 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 Sweetbriar. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.1727, Longitude: -79.8001 In this case, the coordinates for Sweetbriar have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.626 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.716 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.419 degrees.