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 Windsor Heights:
34.268205, -80.641191
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 Windsor Heights
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 Kershaw County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eight communities that are also named Windsor Heights.
Within South Carolina, the name Windsor Heights is unique.
Beyond South Carolina, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, six are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Lauderdale County
This Windsor Heights is located in Lauderdale County and lies 401 miles [645.3 km]<1> to the west of the Windsor Heights that is located in Kershaw County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lauderdale County community of Windsor Heights.
Georgia
Fulton County
This Windsor Heights is located in Fulton County and lies 214 miles [344.4 km]<1> to the west of the Windsor Heights that is located in Kershaw County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Windsor Heights.
Iowa
Polk County
This Windsor Heights is located in Polk County and lies 872 miles [1,403.3 km]<1> to the northwest of the Windsor Heights that is located in Kershaw County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Polk County community of Windsor Heights.
Maryland
Carroll 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 Maryland community of Windsor Heights [Carroll County].
Newfoundland and Labrador
This Windsor Heights lies 1,704 miles [2,742.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the Windsor Heights that is located in Kershaw County.
Ontario
This Windsor Heights lies 760 miles [1,223.1 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Windsor Heights that is located in Kershaw County.
Virginia
Danville City
This Windsor Heights is located in Danville City and lies 173 miles [278.4 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Windsor Heights that is located in Kershaw County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Danville City community of Windsor Heights.
West Virginia
Brooke County
This Windsor Heights is located in Brooke County and lies 408 miles [656.6 km]<1> to the north of the Windsor Heights that is located in Kershaw County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brooke County community of Windsor Heights.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Windsor Heights ...
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 & 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 Windsor Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Windsor Heights and extending to:
Columbia, which is the State Capital of South Carolina, lies 29 miles [46.7 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could walk a straight line from Windsor Heights to Columbia, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 376 miles [605.1 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take 6 hours, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 22 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,254 miles [10,064.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,948 miles [11,181.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,830 miles [7,773.1 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- Windsor Heights) 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 Windsor Heights 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Windsor Heights 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 Windsor Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.2682, Longitude: -80.6412 In this case, the coordinates for Windsor Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.102 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.277 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.707 degrees.