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 Three Point:
36.763421, -83.260179
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 Three Point
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 Harlan County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Three Point.
Within Kentucky, the name Three Point is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, there is another community also named Three Point in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Tennessee
Lauderdale County
This Three Point is located in Lauderdale County and lies 366 miles [589 km]<1> to the west of the Three Point that is located in Harlan County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lauderdale County community of Three Point.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Three Point ...
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 & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Three Point to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Three Point and extending to:
Harlan, which is the Seat of Harlan County, lies just to the North Northwest.
Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 132 miles [212.4 km]<1> to the northwest (NW). If you could drive a straight line from Three Point to Frankfort, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 369 miles [593.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take 6 hours, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 21 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,252 miles [10,061.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,964 miles [11,207.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,840 miles [7,789.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Three Point) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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.
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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 Three Point 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 Three Point. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.7634, Longitude: -83.2602 In this case, the coordinates for Three Point have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.656 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.42 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.037 degrees.