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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 South Garden, we use the following websites to find information relevant to South Garden 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 South Garden:
    • 37.483481, -77.491374
    • 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 South Garden
  • 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 Richmond County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Richmond County
    • Since South Garden is near Richmond City and also Chesterfield County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Richmond City
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Chesterfield 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 South Garden

Communities Also Named South Garden ...

We found one communities that are also named South Garden.

There is one other community in Virginia that is also named South Garden.

Beyond Virginia.

  • Communities Located In Virginia ...
    • Albemarle 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 Virginia community of South Garden [Albemarle County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near South Garden ...

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.

  • Cedar Farm
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Cedar Farm is located in Richmond City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Farm
  • Cherokee Hills
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Cherokee Hills is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee Hills
  • Cherry Gardens
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Cherry Gardens is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Gardens
  • Fairpines
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Fairpines is located in Chesterfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairpines
  • Fawnbrook
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Fawnbrook is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fawnbrook
  • Grand Summit
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Grand Summit is located in Chesterfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Summit
  • Granite
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Granite is located in Richmond City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite
  • Gravel Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Gravel Hill is located in Richmond City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravel Hill
  • Kings Forest
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Kings Forest is located in Chesterfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Forest
  • Land O'Pines
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Land O'Pines is located in Chesterfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Land O'Pines
  • Pebble Spring
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Pebble Spring is located in Chesterfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pebble Spring
  • Piney Knolls
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Piney Knolls is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piney Knolls
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Spring Grove
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Spring Grove is located in Chesterfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Grove
    • Willow Oaks
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Willow Oaks is located in Richmond City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Oaks
    • Wiseville ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Wiseville is located in Chesterfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wiseville
    • Woodland Park
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Woodland Park is located in Richmond County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodland Park

How Far From South Garden to ...

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 South Garden to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Warsaw, which is the Seat of Richmond County, lies 51 miles [82.1 km]<2> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from South Garden to Warsaw, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of two days.
  • Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies just to the northeast (NE).
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 100 miles [160.9 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,977 miles [9,619 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,677 miles [10,745.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,556 miles [7,332.2 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 South Garden 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- South Garden) 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 South Garden 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 South Garden. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.4835, Longitude: -77.4914       In this case, the coordinates for South Garden have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.233 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.614 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.43 degrees.