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Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Contentnea, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Contentnea and the surrounding area.
- Astronomy & Satellites ...
- 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 Contentnea:
- 35.501827, -77.730811
- 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 Contentnea
- 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 Greene County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Greene County
- Since Contentnea is near Wayne County and also Pitt County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Wayne County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Pitt County
- Waymarking ...
- Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
- Open the Waymark.com report for Contentnea
Communities Also Named Contentnea ...
We found one communities that are also named Contentnea.
There is one other community in North Carolina that is also named Contentnea.
Beyond North Carolina.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Wilson 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 Contentnea [Wilson County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Contentnea ...
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.
- Cokers Crossroads
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Cokers Crossroads is located in Wayne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cokers Crossroads
- Daisy Siding
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Daisy Siding is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daisy Siding
- Eureka
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Eureka is located in Wayne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eureka
- Population from the 2020 Census: 200 people
- Fourway
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Fourway is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourway
- Herrings Crossroads
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Herrings Crossroads is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herrings Crossroads
- Hill View
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Hill View is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill View
- Jason
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Jason is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jason
- Lizzie
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Lizzie is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lizzie
- Parkstown
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Parkstown is located in Wayne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkstown
- Snow Hill
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Watery Branch
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Watery Branch is located in Wayne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watery Branch
How Far From Contentnea to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Contentnea to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Contentnea and extending to:
- Snow Hill, which is the Seat of Greene County, lies just to the Southeast.
- Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 54 miles [86.9 km]<3> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could walk a straight line from Contentnea to Raleigh, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 237 miles [381.4 km] to the north (N). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 14 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,072 miles [9,771.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,764 miles [10,885.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,647 miles [7,478.6 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 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 Contentnea 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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- Contentnea) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Contentnea 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 Contentnea. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.5018, Longitude: -77.7308 In this case, the coordinates for Contentnea have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.444 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.557 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.218 degrees. |
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