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 Chestnut Hills:
35.850984, -78.652226
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 Chestnut Hills
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 nine communities that are also named Chestnut Hills.
There is one other community in North Carolina that is also named Chestnut Hills.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, eight are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Cumberland County
This Chestnut Hills is located in Cumberland County and lies 58 miles [93.3 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Chestnut Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Chestnut Hills.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Chestnut Hills is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 242 miles [389.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Chestnut Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Chestnut Hills.
Montgomery County
This Chestnut Hills is located in Montgomery County and lies 236 miles [379.8 km] to the north northeast of the Chestnut Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Chestnut Hills.
Prince George's County
This Chestnut Hills is located in Prince George's County and lies 239 miles [384.6 km] to the north northeast of the Chestnut Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Prince George's County community of Chestnut Hills.
Ontario
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 Ontario community of Chestnut Hills.
South Carolina
Greenville County
This Chestnut Hills is located in Greenville County and lies 224 miles [360.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Chestnut Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenville County community of Chestnut Hills.
Tennessee
Roane County
This Chestnut Hills is located in Roane County and lies 321 miles [516.6 km]<1> to the west of the Chestnut Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roane County community of Chestnut Hills.
Virginia
Roanoke City
This Chestnut Hills is located in Roanoke City and lies 119 miles [191.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Chestnut Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roanoke City community of Chestnut Hills.
West Virginia
Harrison County
This Chestnut Hills is located in Harrison County and lies 253 miles [407.2 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Chestnut Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harrison County community of Chestnut Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Chestnut Hills ...
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 Chestnut Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Chestnut Hills and extending to:
The White House (Washington, DC) is 228 miles [366.9 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Chestnut Hills to White House, with an average speed<3>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 13 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 9 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 6,793 miles [10,932.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,674 miles [7,522.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Chestnut Hills) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 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 Chestnut Hills 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>
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 Chestnut Hills 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 Chestnut Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8510, Longitude: -78.6522 In this case, the coordinates for Chestnut Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.957 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.196 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.455 degrees.