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 Four Seasons:
35.208477, -80.733125
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 Four Seasons
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 Mecklenburg County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found ten communities that are also named Four Seasons.
There are two communities within North Carolina that are also named Four Seasons.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Forsyth County
This Four Seasons is located in Forsyth County and lies 66 miles [106.2 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Four Seasons that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Forsyth County community of Four Seasons.
Henderson 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 North Carolina community of Four Seasons [Henderson County].
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Delaware
Kent County
This Four Seasons is located in Kent County and lies 394 miles [634.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Four Seasons that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kent County community of Four Seasons.
Florida
Collier County
This Four Seasons is located in Collier County and lies 620 miles [997.8 km]<1> to the south of the Four Seasons that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Collier County community of Four Seasons.
Hillsborough County
This Four Seasons is located in Hillsborough County and lies 501 miles [806.3 km] to the south of the Four Seasons that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Four Seasons.
Maryland
Carroll County
This Four Seasons is located in Carroll County and lies 360 miles [579.4 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Four Seasons that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Four Seasons.
Missouri
Camden County
This Four Seasons is located in Camden County and lies 694 miles [1,116.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Four Seasons that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Camden County community of Four Seasons.
South Carolina
Kershaw County
This Four Seasons is located in Kershaw County and lies 69 miles [111 km]<1> to the south of the Four Seasons that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kershaw County community of Four Seasons.
Texas
Zapata County
This Four Seasons is located in Zapata County and lies 1,236 miles [1,989.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Four Seasons that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Zapata County community of Four Seasons.
Virginia
Albemarle County
This Four Seasons is located in Albemarle County and lies 234 miles [376.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Four Seasons that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Albemarle County community of Four Seasons.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Four Seasons ...
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.
Coventry Woods (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
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 Four Seasons to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Four Seasons and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 124 miles [199.6 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Four Seasons 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 326 miles [524.6 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<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,216 miles [10,003.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,914 miles [11,127 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,794 miles [7,715.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Four Seasons) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Four Seasons 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>
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 Four Seasons 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 Four Seasons. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2085, Longitude: -80.7331 In this case, the coordinates for Four Seasons have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.158 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.478 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.466 degrees.