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 Bellewood:
38.260837, -85.659208
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 Bellewood
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 Jefferson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named Bellewood.
Within Kentucky, the name Bellewood is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Delaware
New Castle County
This Bellewood is located in New Castle County and lies 553 miles [890 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Bellewood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of Bellewood.
Louisiana
Assumption Parish
This Bellewood is located in Assumption Parish and lies 654 miles [1,052.5 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Bellewood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Assumption Parish community of Bellewood.
Tangipahoa Parish
This Bellewood is located in Tangipahoa Parish and lies 598 miles [962.4 km] to the south southwest of the Bellewood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tangipahoa Parish community of Bellewood.
Maryland
Charles County
This Bellewood is located in Charles County and lies 476 miles [766 km]<1> to the east of the Bellewood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charles County community of Bellewood.
Mississippi
Humphreys County
This Bellewood is located in Humphreys County and lies 442 miles [711.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Bellewood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Humphreys County community of Bellewood.
New Jersey
Hunterdon 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 New Jersey community of Bellewood [Hunterdon County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Bellewood ...
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.
Cherokee Garden (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a city such as Bellewood to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Bellewood and extending to:
Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 42 miles [67.6 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could walk a straight line from Bellewood to Frankfort, with an average speed<3> 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 467 miles [751.6 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 19 days and walking would take 27 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,280 miles [10,106.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,003 miles [11,270.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,879 miles [7,852 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bellewood) 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 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 Bellewood 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 Bellewood 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 Bellewood. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.2608, Longitude: -85.6592 In this case, the coordinates for Bellewood have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.149 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.345 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.659 degrees.