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 Riverwood:
38.282847, -85.661232
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 Riverwood
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 seventeen communities that are also named Riverwood.
Within Kentucky, the name Riverwood is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of seventeen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Shelby County
This Riverwood is located in Shelby County and lies 341 miles [548.8 km]<1> to the south of the Riverwood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shelby County community of Riverwood.
Tuscaloosa County
This Riverwood is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 363 miles [584.2 km] to the south southwest of the Riverwood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of Riverwood.
Georgia
Cobb County
This Riverwood is located in Cobb County and lies 311 miles [500.5 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Riverwood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cobb County community of Riverwood.
Newton County
This Riverwood is located in Newton County and lies 345 miles [555.2 km] to the south southeast of the Riverwood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Newton County community of Riverwood.
Troup County
This Riverwood is located in Troup County and lies 357 miles [574.5 km] to the south of the Riverwood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Troup County community of Riverwood.
Indiana
Hamilton County
This Riverwood is located in Hamilton County and lies 126 miles [202.8 km]<1> to the north of the Riverwood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Riverwood.
Louisiana
Saint Tammany Parish
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 Louisiana community of Riverwood [Saint Tammany Parish].
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Riverwood is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 486 miles [782.1 km]<1> to the east of the Riverwood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Riverwood.
Frederick County
This Riverwood is located in Frederick County and lies 452 miles [727.4 km] to the east of the Riverwood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of Riverwood.
Montgomery County
This Riverwood is located in Montgomery County and lies 453 miles [729 km] to the east of the Riverwood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Riverwood.
Michigan
Eaton 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 Michigan community of Riverwood [Eaton County].
Oregon
Multnomah County
This Riverwood is located in Multnomah County and lies 1,947 miles [3,133.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Riverwood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Multnomah County community of Riverwood.
Tennessee
Rutherford County
This Riverwood is located in Rutherford County and lies 166 miles [267.2 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Riverwood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Riverwood.
Texas
Montgomery County
Although located in Montgomery County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Riverwood.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Riverwood is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,400 miles [2,253.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Riverwood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Riverwood.
Virginia
Arlington County
This Riverwood is located in Arlington County and lies 463 miles [745.1 km]<1> to the east of the Riverwood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Arlington County community of Riverwood.
Fairfax County
This Riverwood is located in Fairfax County and lies 463 miles [745.1 km] to the east of the Riverwood that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfax County community of Riverwood.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Riverwood ...
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 city such as Riverwood to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Riverwood 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 Riverwood 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 6,279 miles [10,105.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,002 miles [11,268.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,878 miles [7,850.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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- Riverwood) 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Riverwood 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 Riverwood 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 Riverwood. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.2828, Longitude: -85.6612 In this case, the coordinates for Riverwood have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.15 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.35 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.654 degrees.