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 Country Club:
37.968812, -121.340781
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.
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 San Joaquin County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that share the name Country Club.
Within California, the name Country Club is unique.
Beyond California, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Lonoke County
This Country Club is located in Lonoke County and lies 1,636 miles [2,632.9 km]<1> to the east of the Country Club that is located in San Joaquin County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lonoke County community of Country Club.
Florida
Miami-Dade County
This Country Club is located in Miami-Dade County and lies 2,519 miles [4,053.9 km]<1> to the east of the Country Club that is located in San Joaquin County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Miami-Dade County community of Country Club.
Missouri
Andrew County
This Country Club is located in Andrew County and lies 1,425 miles [2,293.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Country Club that is located in San Joaquin County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Andrew County community of Country Club.
Jackson 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 Missouri community of Country Club [Jackson County].
New York
Bronx County
This Country Club is located in Bronx County and lies 2,512 miles [4,042.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Country Club that is located in San Joaquin County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bronx County community of Country Club.
Ohio
Hamilton 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 Ohio community of Country Club [Hamilton County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Country Club ...
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.
Ampere (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ampere have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Country Club to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Country Club and extending to:
Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 42 miles [67.6 km]<1> to the north (N). If you could walk a straight line from Country Club to Sacramento, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take about three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,373 miles [3,819 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take 5 days, a buggy would take 93 days and walking would take 135 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,382 miles [11,880.2 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,149 miles [13,114.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,195 miles [9,969.9 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<9>
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Country Club) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Country Club. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.9688, Longitude: -121.3408 In this case, the coordinates for Country Club have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Country Club 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>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>
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.
<6>
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 Country Club to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 339.316 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 340.097 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.503 degrees.