Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Fairmont, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Fairmont and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Fairmont
- 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 Fairmont:
- 35.789596, -78.666393
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Fairmont
- 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:
- eBird sighting report for Wake County
- Since Fairmont is near Chatham County and also Durham County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Chatham County
- eBird sighting report for Durham 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Fairmont ...
We found 29 communities that share the name Fairmont.
There are two communities within North Carolina that are also named Fairmont.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another 27 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 27 communities, 26 are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Davidson County
- Robeson County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- British Columbia
- This Fairmont lies 2,098 miles [3,376.4 km]<2> to the northwest of the Fairmont that is located in Wake County.
- California
- Florida
- Illinois
- Madison County
- This Fairmont is located in Madison County and lies 668 miles [1,075 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Fairmont that is located in Wake County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Fairmont.
- Will County
- This Fairmont is located in Will County and lies 643 miles [1,034.8 km] to the northwest of the Fairmont that is located in Wake County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Will County community of Fairmont.
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- East Baton Rouge Parish
- This Fairmont is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 804 miles [1,293.9 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Fairmont that is located in Wake County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of Fairmont.
- Grant Parish
- 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 Louisiana community of Fairmont [Grant Parish].
- Maryland
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Nebraska
- Nova Scotia
- This Fairmont lies 1,105 miles [1,778.3 km]<2> to the northeast of the Fairmont that is located in Wake County.
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Ontario
- This Fairmont lies 514 miles [827.2 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Fairmont that is located in Wake County.
- Pennsylvania
- Fayette County
- This Fairmont is located in Fayette County and lies 289 miles [465.1 km]<2> to the north of the Fairmont that is located in Wake County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Fairmont.
- Westmoreland 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 Pennsylvania community of Fairmont [Westmoreland County].
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Hamilton 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 Tennessee community of Fairmont [Hamilton County].
- Rutherford County
- This Fairmont is located in Rutherford County and lies 432 miles [695.2 km]<2> to the west of the Fairmont that is located in Wake County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Fairmont.
- Texas
- Utah
- Washington
- Jefferson County
- This Fairmont is located in Jefferson County and lies 2,384 miles [3,836.7 km]<2> to the northwest of the Fairmont that is located in Wake County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Fairmont.
- Snohomish County
- This Fairmont is located in Snohomish County and lies 2,356 miles [3,791.6 km] to the northwest of the Fairmont that is located in Wake County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Snohomish County community of Fairmont.
- West Virginia
- British Columbia
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fairmont ...
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.
- Georgetown
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Georgetown have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georgetown
- Georgetown is located in Wake County
- Glen Eden
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest) - Indian Hills
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Indian Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Hills
- Indian Hills is located in Wake County
- Isle Forest
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Isle Forest have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isle Forest
- Isle Forest is located in Wake County
- Kent Garden
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kent Garden have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent Garden
- Kent Garden is located in Wake County
- Little Lake Hill
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Lake Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Lake Hill
- Little Lake Hill is located in Wake County
- Longview
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east) - Markwood
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north) - Method
(Less than 2 miles to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Method
- Method is located in Wake County
- Orchards
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest) - Rollingwood
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rollingwood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rollingwood
- Rollingwood is located in Wake County
- Royal Hills
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Royal Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal Hills
- Royal Hills is located in Wake County
How Far From Fairmont 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 Fairmont to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Fairmont and extending to:
- Raleigh, which is the Seat of Wake County, lies just to the East Southeast.
- Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies just to the east southeast (ESE).
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 232 miles [373.4 km]<2> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Fairmont to White House, with an average speed<4>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 14 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 9 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,101 miles [9,818.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,796 miles [10,937.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,677 miles [7,526.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Fairmont. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Wake County: www.wakegov.com/
The official website for State of North Carolina: https://www.nc.gov/
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 Fairmont 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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fairmont) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fairmont. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7896, Longitude: -78.6664 In this case, the coordinates for Fairmont have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Fairmont 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 308.967 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.198 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.481 degrees. |