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 Oak Knoll:
34.124452, -118.135904
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 Oak Knoll
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 eight communities that are also named Oak Knoll.
There is one other community in California that is also named Oak Knoll.
Beyond California, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In California ...
Napa County
This Oak Knoll is located in Napa County and lies 374 miles [601.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Oak Knoll that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Napa County community of Oak Knoll.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Oak Knoll is located in Hillsborough County and lies 2,141 miles [3,445.6 km]<1> to the east of the Oak Knoll that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Oak Knoll.
Manatee County
This Oak Knoll is located in Manatee County and lies 2,163 miles [3,481 km] to the east of the Oak Knoll that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Manatee County community of Oak Knoll.
Minnesota
Hennepin County
This Oak Knoll is located in Hennepin County and lies 1,504 miles [2,420.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Oak Knoll that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hennepin County community of Oak Knoll.
Ohio
Marion County
This Oak Knoll is located in Marion County and lies 1,957 miles [3,149.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Oak Knoll that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Oak Knoll.
Texas
Tarrant 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 Texas community of Oak Knoll [Tarrant County].
Wisconsin
Dane County
This Oak Knoll is located in Dane County and lies 1,666 miles [2,681.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Oak Knoll that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dane County community of Oak Knoll.
Waukesha County
This Oak Knoll is located in Waukesha County and lies 1,708 miles [2,748.8 km] to the east northeast of the Oak Knoll that is located in Los Angeles County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Waukesha County community of Oak Knoll.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Oak Knoll ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Oak Knoll to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Oak Knoll and extending to:
Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 359 miles [577.8 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Oak Knoll to Sacramento, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 21 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 14 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,285 miles [3,677.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 90 days and walking would take 130 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,560 miles [12,166.6 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 8,329 miles [13,404.2 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,318 miles [10,167.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Oak Knoll) 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 Oak Knoll 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 Oak Knoll 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 Oak Knoll. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.1245, Longitude: -118.1359 In this case, the coordinates for Oak Knoll have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 336.16 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 336.051 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 325.57 degrees.