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 Fairway Acres:
35.739597, -78.667226
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 Fairway Acres
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:
We found four communities that are also named Fairway Acres.
There is one other community in North Carolina that is also named Fairway Acres.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Caldwell County
This Fairway Acres is located in Caldwell County and lies 160 miles [257.5 km]<1> to the west of the Fairway Acres that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caldwell County community of Fairway Acres.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Tuolumne County
This Fairway Acres is located in Tuolumne County and lies 2,291 miles [3,687 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Fairway Acres that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuolumne County community of Fairway Acres.
Virginia
Richmond County
This Fairway Acres is located in Richmond County and lies 140 miles [225.3 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Fairway Acres that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richmond County community of Fairway Acres.
West Virginia
Wood County
This Fairway Acres is located in Wood County and lies 289 miles [465.1 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Fairway Acres that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wood County community of Fairway Acres.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fairway Acres ...
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.
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 Fairway Acres to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Fairway Acres and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the Seat of Wake County, lies just to the North Northeast.
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies just to the north northeast (NNE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 235 miles [378.2 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Fairway Acres to White House, with an average speed<2>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 10 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,103 miles [9,821.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,798 miles [10,940.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,679 miles [7,530.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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- Fairway Acres) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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.
<3>
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 Fairway Acres 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 Fairway Acres. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7396, Longitude: -78.6672 In this case, the coordinates for Fairway Acres have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.968 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.193 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.498 degrees.