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 Forest Knolls:
37.754444, -122.459167
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 Forest Knolls
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 San Francisco County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found seven communities that are also named Forest Knolls.
There are two communities within California that are also named Forest Knolls.
Beyond California, we know of five communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, six are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In California ...
Marin County
This Forest Knolls is located in Marin County and lies 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> to the northwest of the Forest Knolls that is located in San Francisco County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marin County community of Forest Knolls.
Nevada County
This Forest Knolls is located in Nevada County and lies 129 miles [207.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Forest Knolls that is located in San Francisco County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nevada County community of Forest Knolls.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
British Columbia
This Forest Knolls lies 786 miles [1,264.9 km]<1> to the north of the Forest Knolls that is located in San Francisco County.
Maryland
Montgomery 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 Forest Knolls [Montgomery County].
Prince George's County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Forest Knolls [Prince George's County].
New York
Westchester County
This Forest Knolls is located in Westchester County and lies 2,575 miles [4,144.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Forest Knolls that is located in San Francisco County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Westchester County community of Forest Knolls.
Pennsylvania
Lancaster 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 Pennsylvania community of Forest Knolls [Lancaster County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Forest Knolls ...
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 & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Forest Knolls to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Forest Knolls and extending to:
Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 77 miles [123.9 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Forest Knolls to Sacramento, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,435 miles [3,918.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 96 days and walking would take 139 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,417 miles [11,936.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,183 miles [13,169.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,240 miles [10,042.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>'
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- Forest Knolls) 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 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 Forest Knolls 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 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 Forest Knolls 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 Forest Knolls. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.7544, Longitude: -122.4592 In this case, the coordinates for Forest Knolls have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 340.235 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 341.193 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 328.19 degrees.