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 Apple Creek:
35.175145, -80.666457
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 Apple Creek
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 Mecklenburg County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named Apple Creek.
Within North Carolina, the name Apple Creek is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Missouri
Cape Girardeau County
This community is historic<1> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Apple Creek [Cape Girardeau County].
Perry County
This Apple Creek is located in Perry County and lies 531 miles [854.6 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Apple Creek that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Perry County community of Apple Creek.
North Dakota
Burleigh County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Apple Creek [Burleigh County].
Ohio
Wayne County
This Apple Creek is located in Wayne County and lies 390 miles [627.6 km]<2> to the north of the Apple Creek that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Apple Creek.
Wisconsin
Outagamie County
This Apple Creek is located in Outagamie County and lies 751 miles [1,208.6 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Apple Creek that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Outagamie County community of Apple Creek.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Apple Creek ...
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 & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Apple Creek to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Apple Creek and extending to:
Charlotte, which is the Seat of Mecklenburg County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the west northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Apple Creek to Charlotte, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 121 miles [194.7 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 325 miles [523 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 19 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,215 miles [10,002.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,913 miles [11,125.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,792 miles [7,712 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 Apple Creek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>
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- Apple Creek) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>
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 Apple Creek 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.
<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 Apple Creek 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 Apple Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.1751, Longitude: -80.6665 In this case, the coordinates for Apple Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.12 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.429 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.45 degrees.