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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Grand View Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Grand View Park and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Grand View Park:
    • 35.886519, -81.577319
    • 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 Grand View Park
  • 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 Caldwell County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Caldwell County
    • Since Grand View Park is near Burke County and also Alexander County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Burke County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Alexander 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:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Grand View Park

Communities Also Named Grand View Park ...

We found two communities that are also named Grand View Park.

Within North Carolina, the name Grand View Park is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Maryland
      • Anne Arundel County
      • This Grand View Park is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 347 miles [558.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Grand View Park that is located in Caldwell County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Grand View Park.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Montgomery 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 Pennsylvania community of Grand View Park [Montgomery County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Grand View Park ...

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.

  • Cloverdale
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Cloverdale is located in Caldwell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
  • Copenhagen ‑ Historic
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Copenhagen is located in Caldwell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copenhagen
  • Gamewell
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Gamewell is located in Caldwell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gamewell
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,993 people
  • Gamewell Heights
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Gamewell Heights is located in Caldwell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gamewell Heights
  • Globe Set ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Globe Set is located in Caldwell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Globe Set
  • Hartland
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Hartland is located in Caldwell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland
  • Heritage Hills
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Heritage Hills is located in Caldwell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heritage Hills
  • Honey Hill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Honey Hill is located in Caldwell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Honey Hill
  • Maple Valley
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Maple Valley is located in Caldwell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Valley
  • Pineburr
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Pineburr is located in Caldwell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pineburr
  • Smokey Creek
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Smokey Creek is located in Caldwell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smokey Creek
  • Warrior
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Warrior is located in Caldwell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warrior

How Far From Grand View Park 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 Grand View Park to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Grand View Park and extending to:

  • Lenoir, which is the Seat of Caldwell County, lies just to the Northeast.
  • Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 164 miles [263.9 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Grand View Park to Raleigh, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 10 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 7 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 324 miles [521.4 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 6,222 miles [10,013.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,926 miles [11,146.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,803 miles [7,729.7 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Grand View Park) 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Grand View Park 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 Grand View Park 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 Grand View Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8865, Longitude: -81.5773       In this case, the coordinates for Grand View Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.65 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.14 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.60 degrees.