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 Bainbridge:
35.690432, -78.599171
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 Bainbridge
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 Wake County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eighteen communities that are also named Bainbridge.
Within North Carolina, the name Bainbridge is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of seventeen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
In addition to the above occurrences of Bainbridge, we know of another community located outside of the United States and Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Lauderdale 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 Alabama community of Bainbridge [Lauderdale County].
British Columbia
This Bainbridge lies 2,489 miles [4,005.7 km]<2> to the northwest of the Bainbridge that is located in Wake County.
Georgia
Decatur County
This Bainbridge is located in Decatur County and lies 477 miles [767.7 km]<2> to the southwest of the Bainbridge that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Decatur County community of Bainbridge.
Illinois
Williamson County
This Bainbridge is located in Williamson County and lies 592 miles [952.7 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Bainbridge that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Williamson County community of Bainbridge.
Indiana
Putnam County
This Bainbridge is located in Putnam County and lies 528 miles [849.7 km]<2> to the northwest of the Bainbridge that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Putnam County community of Bainbridge.
Kentucky
Christian County
This Bainbridge is located in Christian County and lies 511 miles [822.4 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Bainbridge that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Christian County community of Bainbridge.
Maryland
Cecil 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 Maryland community of Bainbridge [Cecil County].
Worcester County
This Bainbridge is located in Worcester County and lies 265 miles [426.5 km]<2> to the northeast of the Bainbridge that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Worcester County community of Bainbridge.
Michigan
Berrien 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 Michigan community of Bainbridge [Berrien County].
Minnesota
Cottonwood 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 Minnesota community of Bainbridge [Cottonwood County].
Missouri
Cape Girardeau County
This Bainbridge is located in Cape Girardeau County and lies 612 miles [984.9 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Bainbridge that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cape Girardeau County community of Bainbridge.
Clinton County
Although located in Clinton County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clinton County community of Bainbridge.
New York
Chenango County
This Bainbridge is located in Chenango County and lies 485 miles [780.5 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Bainbridge that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chenango County community of Bainbridge.
Ohio
Geauga County
This Bainbridge is located in Geauga County and lies 420 miles [675.9 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Bainbridge that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Geauga County community of Bainbridge.
Ross County
This Bainbridge is located in Ross County and lies 353 miles [568.1 km] to the northwest of the Bainbridge that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ross County community of Bainbridge.
Pennsylvania
Lancaster County
This Bainbridge is located in Lancaster County and lies 321 miles [516.6 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Bainbridge that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lancaster County community of Bainbridge.
Washington
Kitsap County
This Bainbridge is located in Kitsap County and lies 2,374 miles [3,820.6 km]<2> to the northwest of the Bainbridge that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kitsap County community of Bainbridge.
Communities Beyond North America ...
England
Distance: 3,744 miles [6,025.4 km]<2> to the northeast
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 Bainbridge to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Bainbridge and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the Seat of Wake County, lies just to the North Northwest.
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies just to the north northwest (NNW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 237 miles [381.4 km]<2> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Bainbridge to White House, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 14 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 10 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,102 miles [9,820.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,797 miles [10,938.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,678 miles [7,528.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 Bainbridge, 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 from Point A (ie- Bainbridge) 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 Bainbridge 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 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.
<5>
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 Bainbridge 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 Bainbridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.6904, Longitude: -78.5992 In this case, the coordinates for Bainbridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.931 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.142 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.488 degrees.