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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 Whittemore Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Whittemore Park 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 Whittemore Park:
    • 33.834892, -79.067538
    • 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 Whittemore Park
  • 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 Horry County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Horry County
    • Since Whittemore Park is near Marion County and also Georgetown County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Marion County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Georgetown 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 Whittemore Park

Communities Also Named Whittemore Park ...

We found one communities that are also named Whittemore Park.

Within South Carolina, the name Whittemore Park is unique.

Beyond South Carolina, there is another community also named Whittemore Park in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore 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 Maryland community of Whittemore Park [Baltimore County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Whittemore Park ...

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.

  • Burning Ridge
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Burning Ridge is located in Horry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burning Ridge
  • Cedar Grove
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Cedar Grove is located in Horry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
  • Coastal Heights
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Coastal Heights is located in Horry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coastal Heights
  • College Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • College Park is located in Horry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for College Park
  • Crosswinds
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Crosswinds is located in Horry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crosswinds
  • Homewood
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Homewood is located in Horry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homewood
  • Longwood
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Longwood is located in Horry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longwood
  • Mary
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Mary is located in Horry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mary
  • Ned Swamp
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Ned Swamp is located in Horry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ned Swamp
  • Park Hill
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Park Hill is located in Horry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Hill
  • Sand Ridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Sand Ridge is located in Horry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Ridge
  • University Forest
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • University Forest is located in Horry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for University Forest

How Far From Whittemore Park to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Whittemore Park to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Conway, which is the Seat of Horry County, lies just to the East.
  • Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 113 miles [181.9 km]<2> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Whittemore Park 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 367 miles [590.6 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take 6 hours, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 21 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,204 miles [9,984.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,891 miles [11,090 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,776 miles [7,686.2 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 Whittemore Park 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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Whittemore Park) 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 Whittemore Park 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 Whittemore Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.8349, Longitude: -79.0675       In this case, the coordinates for Whittemore Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.216 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.197 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.249 degrees.