Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Oak Knolls, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Oak Knolls and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Oak Knolls
- Astronomy & Satellites ...
- 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 Oak Knolls:
- 38.580120, -76.990252
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Oak Knolls
- 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 Charles County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Charles County
- Since Oak Knolls is near Prince George's County and also Fairfax County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Prince George's County
- eBird sighting report for Fairfax County
- Waymarking ...
- Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Oak Knolls ...
We found two communities that share the name Oak Knolls.
Within Maryland, the name Oak Knolls is unique.
Beyond Maryland, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Santa Barbara County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Oak Knolls [Santa Barbara County].
- Georgia
- Houston County
- This Oak Knolls is located in Houston County and lies 567 miles [912.5 km]<2> to the southwest of the Oak Knolls that is located in Charles County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Houston County community of Oak Knolls.
- California
Curious and Interesting Names Near Oak Knolls ...
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.
- Beantown
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast) - Camelot
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west) - Countryside
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Countryside have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Countryside
- Countryside is located in Charles County
- Deerwood
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast) - Forest Grove
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forest Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Grove
- Forest Grove is located in Charles County
- Freedom Village
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Freedom Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedom Village
- Freedom Village is located in Charles County
- Hickory Ridge
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hickory Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Ridge
- Hickory Ridge is located in Charles County
- Hunters Ridge
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hunters Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters Ridge
- Hunters Ridge is located in Charles County
- Kent Square
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kent Square have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent Square
- Kent Square is located in Charles County
- Lyons Corner
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyons Corner
- Lyons Corner is located in Charles County
- Marshalls Corner
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marshalls Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshalls Corner
- Marshalls Corner is located in Charles County
- Pheasant Farm
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pheasant Farm have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pheasant Farm
- Pheasant Farm is located in Charles County
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- Pomfret
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pomfret have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pomfret
- Pomfret is located in Charles County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pomfret <4>
- Quailwood
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south) - Rosewick
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast) - Spring Valley
(Less than 2 miles to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spring Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Valley
- Spring Valley is located in Charles County
- Turkey Hill
(Less than 2 miles to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Turkey Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkey Hill
- Turkey Hill is located in Charles County
- Willow Gate
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willow Gate have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Gate
- Willow Gate is located in Charles County
- Pomfret
How Far From Oak Knolls to ...
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 Oak Knolls to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Oak Knolls and extending to:
- La Plata, which is the Seat of Charles County, lies just to the South.
- Annapolis, which is the State Capital of Maryland, lies 38 miles [61.2 km]<2> to the northeast (NE). If you could walk a straight line from Oak Knolls to Annapolis, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take over two 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 22 miles [35.4 km] to the north (N). The buggy would take most of a day and walking would take just over a day.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,909 miles [9,509.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,612 miles [10,641 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,490 miles [7,226 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Oak Knolls. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Charles County: www.charlescounty.org/
The official website for State of Maryland: www.maryland.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Oak Knolls 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. |
| <2> | 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- Oak Knolls) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oak Knolls. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.5801, Longitude: -76.9903 In this case, the coordinates for Oak Knolls have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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 Oak Knolls 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 307.882 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.381 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.817 degrees. |