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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 Danbury Forest, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Danbury Forest and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Danbury Forest:
    • 35.837358, -80.856461
    • 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 Danbury Forest
  • 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 Iredell County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Iredell County
    • Since Danbury Forest is near Rowan County and also Davie County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Rowan County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Davie 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 Danbury Forest

Communities Also Named Danbury Forest ...

We found one communities that are also named Danbury Forest.

Within North Carolina, the name Danbury Forest is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, there is another community also named Danbury Forest in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Virginia
      • Fairfax 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 Virginia community of Danbury Forest [Fairfax County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Danbury Forest ...

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.

  • Charles
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Charles is located in Iredell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charles
  • Cloverdale
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Cloverdale is located in Iredell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
  • Glenn Echo
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Glenn Echo is located in Iredell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenn Echo
  • Green Acres
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Green Acres is located in Iredell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Acres
  • Kingswood
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Kingswood is located in Iredell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingswood
  • Meadow View
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Meadow View is located in Iredell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow View
  • Ourdell
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Ourdell is located in Iredell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ourdell
  • Snow Creek ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Snow Creek is located in Iredell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snow Creek
  • Valley Stream
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Valley Stream is located in Iredell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Stream
  • Wildwood Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Wildwood Park is located in Iredell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood Park

How Far From Danbury Forest 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 Danbury Forest to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Danbury Forest and extending to:

  • Statesville, which is the Seat of Iredell County, lies just to the South Southwest.
  • Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 124 miles [199.6 km]<2> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Danbury Forest to Raleigh, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 297 miles [478 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 12 days and walking would take 17 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,193 miles [9,966.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,895 miles [11,096.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,773 miles [7,681.4 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 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 Danbury Forest 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Danbury Forest) 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 Danbury Forest 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 Danbury Forest. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8374, Longitude: -80.8565       In this case, the coordinates for Danbury Forest have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.229 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.65 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.326 degrees.