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 Village Square:
37.744097, -122.437749
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 Francisco County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that share the name Village Square.
Within California, the name Village Square is unique.
Beyond California, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Illinois
DuPage 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 Illinois community of Village Square [DuPage County].
Fulton County
This Village Square is located in Fulton County and lies 1,736 miles [2,793.8 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Village Square that is located in San Francisco County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Village Square.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Village Square is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 2,452 miles [3,946.1 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Village Square that is located in San Francisco County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Village Square.
Mississippi
Madison County
This Village Square is located in Madison County and lies 1,854 miles [2,983.7 km]<2> to the east of the Village Square that is located in San Francisco County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Village Square.
Nebraska
Lincoln County
This Village Square is located in Lincoln County and lies 1,174 miles [1,889.4 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Village Square that is located in San Francisco County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of Village Square.
Virginia
Albemarle County
This Village Square is located in Albemarle County and lies 2,373 miles [3,819 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Village Square that is located in San Francisco County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Albemarle County community of Village Square.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Village Square ...
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 Village Square to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Village Square and extending to:
Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 77 miles [123.9 km]<2> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Village Square to Sacramento, with an average speed<4>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<5> 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).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,184 miles [13,170.9 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
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).<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 Village Square 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- Village Square) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Village Square. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.7441, Longitude: -122.4377 In this case, the coordinates for Village Square have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 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 Village Square to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 340.216 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 341.169 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 328.177 degrees.