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 Hickory Acres:
35.231810, -80.696180
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 Hickory 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 Mecklenburg County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Hickory Acres.
There is one other community in North Carolina that is also named Hickory Acres.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Pasquotank County
This Hickory Acres is located in Pasquotank County and lies 259 miles [416.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Hickory Acres that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pasquotank County community of Hickory Acres.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Fayette County
This Hickory Acres is located in Fayette County and lies 246 miles [395.9 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Hickory Acres that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Hickory Acres.
Maryland
Wicomico County
This Hickory Acres is located in Wicomico County and lies 355 miles [571.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the Hickory Acres that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wicomico County community of Hickory Acres.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Hickory 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 & 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 Hickory Acres to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Hickory Acres and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 121 miles [194.7 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Hickory Acres to Raleigh, with an average speed<2>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 323 miles [519.8 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<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,213 miles [9,998.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,912 miles [11,123.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,791 miles [7,710.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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- Hickory 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 Hickory 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 Hickory Acres. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2318, Longitude: -80.6962 In this case, the coordinates for Hickory Acres have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.137 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.456 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.445 degrees.