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 Bluefield:
34.524893, -78.601956
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 Bluefield
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 Bladen County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Bluefield.
Within North Carolina, the name Bluefield is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Martin County
This Bluefield is located in Martin County and lies 519 miles [835.2 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Bluefield that is located in Bladen County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Martin County community of Bluefield.
Tennessee
Rutherford County
This Bluefield is located in Rutherford County and lies 458 miles [737.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Bluefield that is located in Bladen County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Bluefield.
Virginia
Tazewell County
This Bluefield is located in Tazewell County and lies 239 miles [384.6 km]<1> to the northwest of the Bluefield that is located in Bladen County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tazewell County community of Bluefield.
West Virginia
Mercer County
This Bluefield is located in Mercer County and lies 239 miles [384.6 km]<1> to the northwest of the Bluefield that is located in Bladen County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mercer County community of Bluefield.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Bluefield ...
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 Bluefield to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Bluefield and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 86 miles [138.4 km]<1> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Bluefield to Raleigh, with an average speed<3>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 314 miles [505.3 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 18 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,153 miles [9,902.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,842 miles [11,011.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,726 miles [7,605.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Bluefield) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
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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.
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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 Bluefield 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 Bluefield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.5249, Longitude: -78.6020 In this case, the coordinates for Bluefield have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.952 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.995 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.864 degrees.