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 Deerwood:
35.277918, -80.950351
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 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 Mecklenburg County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found nineteen communities that share the name Deerwood.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Deerwood.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another eighteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Wayne County
This Deerwood is located in Wayne County and lies 172 miles [276.8 km]<1> to the east of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Deerwood.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Mobile County
This Deerwood is located in Mobile County and lies 522 miles [840.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mobile County community of Deerwood.
Arkansas
Conway County
This Deerwood is located in Conway County and lies 664 miles [1,068.6 km]<1> to the west of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Conway County community of Deerwood.
Delaware
Sussex County
This Deerwood is located in Sussex County and lies 391 miles [629.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sussex County community of Deerwood.
Florida
Duval County
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 Florida community of Deerwood [Duval County].
Georgia
Glynn County
This Deerwood is located in Glynn County and lies 287 miles [461.9 km]<1> to the south of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Glynn County community of Deerwood.
Gwinnett County
This Deerwood is located in Gwinnett County and lies 195 miles [313.8 km] to the west southwest of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gwinnett County community of Deerwood.
Houston County
This Deerwood is located in Houston County and lies 240 miles [386.2 km] to the southwest of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Houston County community of Deerwood.
Indiana
Johnson County
This Deerwood is located in Johnson County and lies 414 miles [666.3 km]<1> to the northwest of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Johnson County community of Deerwood.
Manitoba
This Deerwood lies 1,313 miles [2,113.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
Maryland
Charles County
This Deerwood is located in Charles County and lies 318 miles [511.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charles County community of Deerwood.
Minnesota
Crow Wing County
This Deerwood is located in Crow Wing County and lies 1,024 miles [1,648 km]<1> to the northwest of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Crow Wing County community of Deerwood.
Kittson County
This Deerwood is located in Kittson County and lies 1,214 miles [1,953.7 km] to the northwest of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kittson County community of Deerwood.
South Carolina
Aiken County
This Deerwood is located in Aiken County and lies 129 miles [207.6 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Aiken County community of Deerwood.
Tennessee
Cumberland County
This Deerwood is located in Cumberland County and lies 215 miles [346 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Deerwood.
Williamson County
This Deerwood is located in Williamson County and lies 334 miles [537.5 km] to the west of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Williamson County community of Deerwood.
Virginia
Albemarle County
This Deerwood is located in Albemarle County and lies 241 miles [387.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Albemarle County community of Deerwood.
Goochland County
This Deerwood is located in Goochland County and lies 241 miles [387.9 km] to the northeast of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Goochland County community of Deerwood.
Wyoming
Albany County
This Deerwood is located in Albany County and lies 1,420 miles [2,285.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Deerwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Albany County community of Deerwood.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Deerwood ...
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.
Homestead (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Homestead have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Deerwood to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Deerwood and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 134 miles [215.7 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Deerwood to Raleigh, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 329 miles [529.5 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 19 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,222 miles [10,013.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,922 miles [11,139.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,801 miles [7,726.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
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- Deerwood) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Deerwood. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2779, Longitude: -80.9504 In this case, the coordinates for Deerwood have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Deerwood 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>
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.
<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 Deerwood to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.284 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.632 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.531 degrees.