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 Green Meadows:
35.253198, -80.761736
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.
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 25 communities that share the name Green Meadows.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Green Meadows.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another 24 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 24 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Wayne County
This Green Meadows is located in Wayne County and lies 159 miles [255.9 km]<1> to the east of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Green Meadows.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Bibb County
This Green Meadows is located in Bibb County and lies 236 miles [379.8 km]<1> to the southwest of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bibb County community of Green Meadows.
Clayton County
This Green Meadows is located in Clayton County and lies 232 miles [373.4 km] to the west southwest of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clayton County community of Green Meadows.
Hall County
This Green Meadows is located in Hall County and lies 193 miles [310.6 km] to the west southwest of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hall County community of Green Meadows.
Paulding County
This Green Meadows is located in Paulding County and lies 249 miles [400.7 km] to the west southwest of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Paulding County community of Green Meadows.
Illinois
Cook 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 Illinois community of Green Meadows [Cook County].
Kane County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Green Meadows [Kane County].
Indiana
Shelby County
This Green Meadows is located in Shelby County and lies 412 miles [663 km]<1> to the northwest of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shelby County community of Green Meadows.
Tippecanoe County
This Green Meadows is located in Tippecanoe County and lies 492 miles [791.8 km] to the northwest of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tippecanoe County community of Green Meadows.
Maryland
Calvert County
This Green Meadows is located in Calvert County and lies 326 miles [524.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calvert County community of Green Meadows.
Carroll County
This Green Meadows is located in Carroll County and lies 361 miles [581 km] to the north northeast of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Green Meadows.
Charles County
This Green Meadows is located in Charles County and lies 308 miles [495.7 km] to the northeast of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charles County community of Green Meadows.
Howard County
This Green Meadows is located in Howard County and lies 346 miles [556.8 km] to the northeast of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Howard County community of Green Meadows.
Prince George's County
This Green Meadows is located in Prince George's County and lies 330 miles [531.1 km] to the northeast of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Prince George's County community of Green Meadows.
Nebraska
Douglas County
This Green Meadows is located in Douglas County and lies 929 miles [1,495.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Douglas County community of Green Meadows.
New Mexico
Lincoln 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 New Mexico community of Green Meadows [Lincoln County].
Ohio
Clark County
This Green Meadows is located in Clark County and lies 363 miles [584.2 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of Green Meadows.
Oregon
Umatilla County
This Green Meadows is located in Umatilla County and lies 2,100 miles [3,379.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Umatilla County community of Green Meadows.
Prince Edward Island
This Green Meadows lies 1,210 miles [1,947.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
Tennessee
Rutherford County
This Green Meadows is located in Rutherford County and lies 323 miles [519.8 km]<1> to the west of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Green Meadows.
Utah
Davis County
This Green Meadows is located in Davis County and lies 1,725 miles [2,776.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davis County community of Green Meadows.
Salt Lake County
This Green Meadows is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,722 miles [2,771.3 km] to the west northwest of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Green Meadows.
Weber County
This Green Meadows is located in Weber County and lies 1,731 miles [2,785.8 km] to the west northwest of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of Green Meadows.
Virginia
Campbell County
This Green Meadows is located in Campbell County and lies 163 miles [262.3 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Campbell County community of Green Meadows.
Henrico County
This Green Meadows is located in Henrico County and lies 250 miles [402.3 km] to the northeast of the Green Meadows that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henrico County community of Green Meadows.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Green Meadows ...
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 (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coventry Woods have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Green Meadows to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Green Meadows 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 Green Meadows to Raleigh, with an average speed<4>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 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,215 miles [10,002.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,914 miles [11,127 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,793 miles [7,713.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Green Meadows) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Green Meadows. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2532, Longitude: -80.7617 In this case, the coordinates for Green Meadows have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 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 Green Meadows 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>
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 Green Meadows 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 310.175 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.503 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.464 degrees.