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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 Johnson Corner:
34.307225, -117.752559
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 Johnson Corner
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 Los Angeles County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found nine communities that are also named Johnson Corner.
Within California, the name Johnson Corner is unique.
Beyond California, we know of nine communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Delaware
Sussex 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 Delaware community of Johnson Corner [Sussex County].
Georgia
Toombs County
This Johnson Corner is located in Toombs County and lies 2,044 miles [3,289.5 km]<2> to the east of the Johnson Corner that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Toombs County community of Johnson Corner.
Maine
Somerset County
This Johnson Corner is located in Somerset County and lies 2,611 miles [4,202 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Johnson Corner that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Somerset County community of Johnson Corner.
Massachusetts
Hampden County
This Johnson Corner is located in Hampden County and lies 2,473 miles [3,979.9 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Johnson Corner that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hampden County community of Johnson Corner.
New Hampshire
Hillsborough County
This Johnson Corner is located in Hillsborough County and lies 2,520 miles [4,055.5 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Johnson Corner that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Johnson Corner.
South Carolina
Georgetown County
This Johnson Corner is located in Georgetown County and lies 2,187 miles [3,519.6 km]<2> to the east of the Johnson Corner that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Georgetown County community of Johnson Corner.
Virginia
Accomack County
This Johnson Corner is located in Accomack County and lies 2,347 miles [3,777.1 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Johnson Corner that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Accomack County community of Johnson Corner.
Mecklenburg County
This Johnson Corner is located in Mecklenburg County and lies 2,209 miles [3,555 km] to the east northeast of the Johnson Corner that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mecklenburg County community of Johnson Corner.
Southampton County
This Johnson Corner is located in Southampton County and lies 2,284 miles [3,675.7 km] to the east northeast of the Johnson Corner that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Southampton County community of Johnson Corner.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Johnson Corner ...
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 Johnson Corner to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Johnson Corner and extending to:
Los Angeles, which is the Seat of Los Angeles County, lies 33 miles [53.1 km]<2> to the west southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Johnson Corner to Los Angeles, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 360 miles [579.4 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take 6 hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 21 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,260 miles [3,637.1 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 89 days and walking would take 129 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,539 miles [12,132.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,308 miles [13,370.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,295 miles [10,130.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>'
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 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 Johnson Corner 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 from Point A (ie- Johnson Corner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Johnson Corner 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 Johnson Corner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.3072, Longitude: -117.7526 In this case, the coordinates for Johnson Corner have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 335.869 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 335.71 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 325.351 degrees.