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 Walnut Creek:
33.928483, -81.215099
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 Walnut Creek
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 thirteen communities that are also named Walnut Creek.
Within South Carolina, the name Walnut Creek is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of thirteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Contra Costa County
This Walnut Creek is located in Contra Costa County and lies 2,282 miles [3,672.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Walnut Creek that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Contra Costa County community of Walnut Creek.
Georgia
Clayton County
This Walnut Creek is located in Clayton County and lies 183 miles [294.5 km]<1> to the west of the Walnut Creek that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clayton County community of Walnut Creek.
Kansas
Barton 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 Kansas community of Walnut Creek [Barton County].
Cherokee 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 Kansas community of Walnut Creek [Cherokee County].
Crawford 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 Kansas community of Walnut Creek [Crawford County].
Neosho 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 Kansas community of Walnut Creek [Neosho County].
Rice 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 Kansas community of Walnut Creek [Rice County].
Saline 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 Kansas community of Walnut Creek [Saline County].
Mississippi
Tippah County
This Walnut Creek is located in Tippah County and lies 441 miles [709.7 km]<1> to the west of the Walnut Creek that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tippah County community of Walnut Creek.
North Carolina
Madison County
This Walnut Creek is located in Madison County and lies 156 miles [251.1 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Walnut Creek that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Walnut Creek.
Onslow County
This Walnut Creek is located in Onslow County and lies 228 miles [366.9 km] to the east northeast of the Walnut Creek that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Onslow County community of Walnut Creek.
Wayne County
This Walnut Creek is located in Wayne County and lies 212 miles [341.2 km] to the east northeast of the Walnut Creek that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Walnut Creek.
Ohio
Holmes County
This Walnut Creek is located in Holmes County and lies 457 miles [735.5 km]<1> to the north of the Walnut Creek that is located in Lexington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Holmes County community of Walnut Creek.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Walnut Creek ...
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 Walnut Creek to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Walnut Creek 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 Walnut Creek 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 414 miles [666.3 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Walnut Creek) 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Walnut Creek 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 Walnut Creek 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 Walnut Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9285, Longitude: -81.2151 In this case, the coordinates for Walnut Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.424 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.598 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.02 degrees.