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 Cedar Fork:
34.876005, -77.707276
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 Cedar Fork
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 Duplin County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named Cedar Fork.
Within North Carolina, the name Cedar Fork is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Clarke 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 Alabama community of Cedar Fork [Clarke County].
Missouri
Franklin 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 Missouri community of Cedar Fork [Franklin County].
Ohio
Pike County
This Cedar Fork is located in Pike County and lies 424 miles [682.4 km]<2> to the northwest of the Cedar Fork that is located in Duplin County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pike County community of Cedar Fork.
Tennessee
Loudon County
This Cedar Fork is located in Loudon County and lies 388 miles [624.4 km]<2> to the west of the Cedar Fork that is located in Duplin County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Loudon County community of Cedar Fork.
Virginia
Caroline County
This Cedar Fork is located in Caroline County and lies 213 miles [342.8 km]<2> to the north of the Cedar Fork that is located in Duplin County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caroline County community of Cedar Fork.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cedar Fork ...
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 Cedar Fork to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Cedar Fork and extending to:
Kenansville, which is the Seat of Duplin County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<2> to the west northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Cedar Fork to Kenansville, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 81 miles [130.4 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 280 miles [450.6 km] to the north (N). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 16 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,098 miles [9,813.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,786 miles [10,921 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,671 miles [7,517.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Cedar Fork 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 from Point A (ie- Cedar Fork) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>
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.
<4>
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 Cedar Fork 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 Cedar Fork. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.8760, Longitude: -77.7073 In this case, the coordinates for Cedar Fork have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.447 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.468 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.418 degrees.