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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 Carmel:
35.100424, -80.837294
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 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 24 communities that are also named Carmel.
There is one other community in North Carolina that is also named Carmel.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of 23 communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these 23 communities, 21 are located in the United States and five are in Canada.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Montgomery 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 North Carolina community of Carmel [Montgomery County].
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Bradley County
This Carmel is located in Bradley County and lies 649 miles [1,044.5 km]<2> to the west of the Carmel that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bradley County community of Carmel.
Chicot 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 Arkansas community of Carmel [Chicot County].
Georgia
Meriwether County
This Carmel is located in Meriwether County and lies 249 miles [400.7 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Carmel that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Meriwether County community of Carmel.
Indiana
Hamilton County
This Carmel is located in Hamilton County and lies 443 miles [712.9 km]<2> to the northwest of the Carmel that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Carmel.
LaPorte County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Carmel [LaPorte County].
Iowa
Sioux County
This Carmel is located in Sioux County and lies 991 miles [1,594.9 km]<2> to the northwest of the Carmel that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sioux County community of Carmel.
Kansas
Cloud 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 Kansas community of Carmel [Cloud County].
Crawford 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 Kansas community of Carmel [Crawford County].
Stafford 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 Kansas community of Carmel [Stafford County].
Louisiana
De Soto Parish
This Carmel is located in De Soto Parish and lies 763 miles [1,227.9 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Carmel that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the De Soto Parish community of Carmel.
Maine
Penobscot County
This Carmel is located in Penobscot County and lies 913 miles [1,469.3 km]<2> to the northeast of the Carmel that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Penobscot County community of Carmel.
Minnesota
Beltrami County
This Carmel is located in Beltrami County and lies 1,177 miles [1,894.2 km]<2> to the northwest of the Carmel that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Beltrami County community of Carmel.
New Jersey
Cumberland County
This Carmel is located in Cumberland County and lies 433 miles [696.8 km]<2> to the northeast of the Carmel that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Carmel.
New York
Putnam County
This Carmel is located in Putnam County and lies 584 miles [939.9 km]<2> to the northeast of the Carmel that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Putnam County community of Carmel.
Ohio
Highland County
This Carmel is located in Highland County and lies 314 miles [505.3 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Carmel that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Highland County community of Carmel.
Ontario
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 Ontario community of Carmel.
Quebec
This Carmel lies 870 miles [1,400.1 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Carmel that is located in Mecklenburg County.
Saskatchewan
This Carmel lies 1,677 miles [2,698.9 km]<2> to the northwest of the Carmel that is located in Mecklenburg County.
South Carolina
Lancaster 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 South Carolina community of Carmel [Lancaster County].
Tennessee
Montgomery 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 Tennessee community of Carmel [Montgomery County].
Virginia
Shenandoah County
This Carmel is located in Shenandoah County and lies 289 miles [465.1 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Carmel that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shenandoah County community of Carmel.
West Virginia
Preston County
This Carmel is located in Preston County and lies 300 miles [482.8 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Carmel that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Preston County community of Carmel.
Wisconsin
Waupaca County
This Carmel is located in Waupaca County and lies 770 miles [1,239.2 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Carmel that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Waupaca County community of Carmel.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Carmel ...
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 Carmel to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Carmel and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 132 miles [212.4 km]<2> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Carmel to Raleigh, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 335 miles [539.1 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,225 miles [10,018.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,924 miles [11,143.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,803 miles [7,729.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Carmel 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Carmel) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>
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 Carmel, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Carmel 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 Carmel. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.1004, Longitude: -80.8373 In this case, the coordinates for Carmel have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.218 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.531 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.539 degrees.