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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 Trent:
37.772031, -83.461295
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 found eleven communities that share the name Trent.
Within Kentucky, the name Trent is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Merced County
This Trent is located in Merced County and lies 2,038 miles [3,279.8 km]<1> to the west of the Trent that is located in Wolfe County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Merced County community of Trent.
Iowa
Polk 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 Iowa community of Trent [Polk County].
Kansas
Neosho County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Neosho County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Neosho County community of Trent.
Michigan
Muskegon 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 Trent [Muskegon County].
Ontario
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 Ontario community of Trent.
Oregon
Lane County
This Trent is located in Lane County and lies 2,080 miles [3,347.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Trent that is located in Wolfe County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lane County community of Trent.
Pennsylvania
Somerset County
This Trent is located in Somerset County and lies 273 miles [439.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Trent that is located in Wolfe County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Somerset County community of Trent.
South Dakota
Moody County
This Trent is located in Moody County and lies 807 miles [1,298.7 km]<1> to the northwest of the Trent that is located in Wolfe County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Moody County community of Trent.
Texas
Taylor County
This Trent is located in Taylor County and lies 1,007 miles [1,620.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Trent that is located in Wolfe County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Taylor County community of Trent.
Virginia
Lee 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 Virginia community of Trent [Lee County].
Washington
Spokane 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 Washington community of Trent [Spokane County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Trent ...
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.
Baptist (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Baptist have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Trent to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Trent and extending to:
Campton, which is the Seat of Wolfe County, lies just to the West Southwest.
Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 82 miles [132 km]<1> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Trent to Frankfort, with an average speed<5>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 356 miles [572.9 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 21 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,214 miles [10,000.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,931 miles [11,154.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,806 miles [7,734.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
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 from Point A (ie- Trent) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Trent. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.7720, Longitude: -83.4613 In this case, the coordinates for Trent have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Trent 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>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Trent, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>
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.
<5>
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.
<6>
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 Trent to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.782 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.71 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.831 degrees.