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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 Country Club Hills:
35.827651, -78.659170
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 found eleven communities that share the name Country Club Hills.
There are four communities within North Carolina that are also named Country Club Hills.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Craven County
This Country Club Hills is located in Craven County and lies 103 miles [165.8 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Country Club Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Craven County community of Country Club Hills.
Onslow County
This Country Club Hills is located in Onslow County and lies 103 miles [165.8 km]<1> to the southeast of the Country Club Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Onslow County community of Country Club Hills.
Rowan County
This Country Club Hills is located in Rowan County and lies 102 miles [164.2 km]<1> to the west of the Country Club Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rowan County community of Country Club Hills.
Wilkes County
This Country Club Hills is located in Wilkes County and lies 140 miles [225.3 km]<1> to the west of the Country Club Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wilkes County community of Country Club Hills.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Tuscaloosa County
This Country Club Hills is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 539 miles [867.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Country Club Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of Country Club Hills.
Georgia
Bulloch County
This Country Club Hills is located in Bulloch County and lies 296 miles [476.4 km]<1> to the southwest of the Country Club Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bulloch County community of Country Club Hills.
Richmond County
This Country Club Hills is located in Richmond County and lies 249 miles [400.7 km] to the southwest of the Country Club Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richmond County community of Country Club Hills.
Illinois
Cook County
This Country Club Hills is located in Cook County and lies 628 miles [1,010.7 km]<1> to the northwest of the Country Club Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Country Club Hills.
Missouri
Saint Louis County
This Country Club Hills is located in Saint Louis County and lies 668 miles [1,075 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Country Club Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Louis County community of Country Club Hills.
Virginia
Arlington County
This Country Club Hills is located in Arlington County and lies 229 miles [368.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Country Club Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Arlington County community of Country Club Hills.
Fairfax City
This Country Club Hills is located in Fairfax City and lies 222 miles [357.3 km] to the north northeast of the Country Club Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfax City community of Country Club Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Country Club 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.
Cedar Hill (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Country Club Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Country Club Hills and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the Seat of Wake County, lies just to the South Southeast.
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies just to the south southeast (SSE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 229 miles [368.5 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Country Club 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 6,099 miles [9,815.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,794 miles [10,933.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,675 miles [7,523.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Country Club Hills) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Country Club Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8277, Longitude: -78.6592 In this case, the coordinates for Country Club Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<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 Country Club Hills to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.962 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.198 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.466 degrees.