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 Druid Hills:
38.264936, -85.661769
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 Druid Hills
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 twelve communities that are also named Druid Hills.
Within Kentucky, the name Druid Hills is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Montgomery County
This Druid Hills is located in Montgomery County and lies 411 miles [661.4 km]<1> to the south of the Druid Hills that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Druid Hills.
Tuscaloosa County
This Druid Hills is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 364 miles [585.8 km] to the south southwest of the Druid Hills that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of Druid Hills.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Druid Hills is located in Hillsborough County and lies 731 miles [1,176.4 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Druid Hills that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Druid Hills.
Seminole 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 Florida community of Druid Hills [Seminole County].
Georgia
DeKalb County
This Druid Hills is located in DeKalb County and lies 318 miles [511.8 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Druid Hills that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the DeKalb County community of Druid Hills.
North Carolina
Henderson County
This Druid Hills is located in Henderson County and lies 268 miles [431.3 km]<1> to the southeast of the Druid Hills that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henderson County community of Druid Hills.
Mecklenburg County
This Druid Hills is located in Mecklenburg County and lies 338 miles [544 km] to the southeast of the Druid Hills that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mecklenburg County community of Druid Hills.
Pennsylvania
Luzerne County
This Druid Hills is located in Luzerne County and lies 555 miles [893.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Druid Hills that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Luzerne County community of Druid Hills.
South Carolina
Greenwood County
This Druid Hills is located in Greenwood County and lies 339 miles [545.6 km]<1> to the southeast of the Druid Hills that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenwood County community of Druid Hills.
Tennessee
Cumberland County
This Druid Hills is located in Cumberland County and lies 162 miles [260.7 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Druid Hills that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Druid Hills.
Virginia
Danville City
This Druid Hills is located in Danville City and lies 361 miles [581 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Druid Hills that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Danville City community of Druid Hills.
James City County
This Druid Hills is located in James City County and lies 491 miles [790.2 km] to the east of the Druid Hills that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the James City County community of Druid Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Druid Hills ...
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.
Arctic Springs (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
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 city such as Druid Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Druid Hills and extending to:
Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 43 miles [69.2 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could walk a straight line from Druid Hills 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Druid Hills) 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 Druid Hills 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 Druid Hills 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 Druid Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.2649, Longitude: -85.6618 In this case, the coordinates for Druid Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.151 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.348 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.659 degrees.