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 Westminster:
34.663527, -83.094090
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 Westminster
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 twenty communities that are also named Westminster.
Within South Carolina, the name Westminster is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of twenty communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, eighteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Orange County
This Westminster is located in Orange County and lies 1,984 miles [3,192.9 km]<1> to the west of the Westminster that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orange County community of Westminster.
Colorado
Jefferson County
This Westminster is located in Jefferson County and lies 1,256 miles [2,021.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Westminster that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Westminster.
Connecticut
Windham County
This Westminster is located in Windham County and lies 772 miles [1,242.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Westminster that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Windham County community of Westminster.
Delaware
New Castle County
This Westminster is located in New Castle County and lies 539 miles [867.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Westminster that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of Westminster.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Westminster is located in Hillsborough County and lies 468 miles [753.2 km]<1> to the south of the Westminster that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Westminster.
Illinois
Shelby County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Westminster [Shelby County].
Kansas
Reno County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Westminster [Reno County].
Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish
This Westminster is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 549 miles [883.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Westminster that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of Westminster.
Maryland
Carroll County
This Westminster is located in Carroll County and lies 476 miles [766 km]<1> to the northeast of the Westminster that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Westminster.
Massachusetts
Worcester County
This Westminster is located in Worcester County and lies 811 miles [1,305.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Westminster that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Worcester County community of Westminster.
Michigan
Grand Traverse County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Westminster [Grand Traverse County].
North Carolina
Rutherford County
This Westminster is located in Rutherford County and lies 87 miles [140 km]<1> to the northeast of the Westminster that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Westminster.
Ohio
Allen County
This Westminster is located in Allen County and lies 420 miles [675.9 km]<1> to the north of the Westminster that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allen County community of Westminster.
Ontario
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Westminster.
Pennsylvania
Erie County
This Westminster is located in Erie County and lies 536 miles [862.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Westminster that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Erie County community of Westminster.
Luzerne County
This Westminster is located in Luzerne County and lies 605 miles [973.7 km] to the northeast of the Westminster that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Luzerne County community of Westminster.
Quebec
This Westminster lies 890 miles [1,432.3 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Westminster that is located in Oconee County.
Texas
Brazoria County
This Westminster is located in Brazoria County and lies 794 miles [1,277.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Westminster that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brazoria County community of Westminster.
Collin County
This Westminster is located in Collin County and lies 769 miles [1,237.6 km] to the west of the Westminster that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Collin County community of Westminster.
Vermont
Windham County
This Westminster is located in Windham County and lies 813 miles [1,308.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Westminster that is located in Oconee County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Windham County community of Westminster.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Westminster ...
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 city such as Westminster to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Westminster and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 125 miles [201.2 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Westminster to Columbia, with an average speed<4>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 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 444 miles [714.5 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 18 days and walking would take 26 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,342 miles [10,206.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,045 miles [11,337.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,923 miles [7,922.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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- Westminster) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Westminster, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>
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 Westminster 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.
<4>
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.
<5>
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 Westminster 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 Westminster. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6635, Longitude: -83.0941
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.525 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.968 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.547 degrees.