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 Blackhawk:
35.812373, -78.792784
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 nine communities that share the name Blackhawk.
Within North Carolina, the name Blackhawk is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Contra Costa County
This Blackhawk is located in Contra Costa County and lies 2,366 miles [3,807.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Blackhawk that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Contra Costa County community of Blackhawk.
Illinois
Carroll County
This Blackhawk is located in Carroll County and lies 753 miles [1,211.8 km]<1> to the northwest of the Blackhawk that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Blackhawk.
Indiana
Allen 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 Indiana community of Blackhawk [Allen County].
Shelby County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Blackhawk [Shelby County].
Vigo County
This Blackhawk is located in Vigo County and lies 524 miles [843.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Blackhawk that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Vigo County community of Blackhawk.
Iowa
Davis County
This Blackhawk is located in Davis County and lies 822 miles [1,322.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Blackhawk that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davis County community of Blackhawk.
Ohio
Warren County
This Blackhawk is located in Warren County and lies 376 miles [605.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Blackhawk that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Blackhawk.
Pennsylvania
Beaver County
This Blackhawk is located in Beaver County and lies 350 miles [563.3 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Blackhawk that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Beaver County community of Blackhawk.
West Virginia
Kanawha County
This Blackhawk is located in Kanawha County and lies 232 miles [373.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Blackhawk that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kanawha County community of Blackhawk.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Blackhawk ...
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.
Carpenter (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carpenter have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 Blackhawk to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Blackhawk and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the Seat of Wake County, lies just to the East Southeast.
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies just to the east southeast (ESE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 233 miles [375 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Blackhawk 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 6,105 miles [9,825 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,801 miles [10,945.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,682 miles [7,534.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Blackhawk) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Blackhawk. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8124, Longitude: -78.7928 In this case, the coordinates for Blackhawk 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 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 Blackhawk 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>
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 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 Blackhawk to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.039 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.283 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.523 degrees.