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 Five Oaks:
35.942922, -78.988065
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 Five Oaks
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 Durham County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Five Oaks.
Within North Carolina, the name Five Oaks is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Louisiana
Caddo Parish
This Five Oaks is located in Caddo Parish and lies 882 miles [1,419.4 km]<1> to the west of the Five Oaks that is located in Durham County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caddo Parish community of Five Oaks.
South Carolina
Spartanburg County
This Five Oaks is located in Spartanburg County and lies 186 miles [299.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Five Oaks that is located in Durham County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Spartanburg County community of Five Oaks.
Texas
Harris County
This Five Oaks is located in Harris County and lies 1,035 miles [1,665.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Five Oaks that is located in Durham County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Five Oaks.
Virginia
Tazewell County
This Five Oaks is located in Tazewell County and lies 161 miles [259.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Five Oaks that is located in Durham County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tazewell County community of Five Oaks.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Five Oaks ...
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 & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Five Oaks to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Five Oaks and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could walk a straight line from Five Oaks to Raleigh, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 230 miles [370.1 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 13 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,108 miles [9,829.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,805 miles [10,951.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,685 miles [7,539.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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- Five Oaks) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Five Oaks 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 Five Oaks. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.9429, Longitude: -78.9881 In this case, the coordinates for Five Oaks have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.148 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.427 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.556 degrees.