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 Holiday Park:
35.244865, -80.699791
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 Holiday 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 Mecklenburg County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found ten communities that are also named Holiday Park.
There is one other community in North Carolina that is also named Holiday Park.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of nine communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Cumberland County
This Holiday Park is located in Cumberland County and lies 101 miles [162.5 km]<1> to the east of the Holiday Park that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Holiday Park.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Columbia County
This Holiday Park is located in Columbia County and lies 144 miles [231.7 km]<1> to the southwest of the Holiday Park that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Holiday Park.
Muscogee County
This Holiday Park is located in Muscogee County and lies 306 miles [492.5 km] to the southwest of the Holiday Park that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Muscogee County community of Holiday Park.
Louisiana
Lafayette Parish
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 Louisiana community of Holiday Park [Lafayette Parish].
Maryland
Montgomery County
This Holiday Park is located in Montgomery County and lies 329 miles [529.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Holiday Park that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Holiday Park.
North Dakota
Burleigh County
This Holiday Park is located in Burleigh County and lies 1,309 miles [2,106.6 km]<1> to the northwest of the Holiday Park that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Burleigh County community of Holiday Park.
Ohio
Wood County
This Holiday Park is located in Wood County and lies 462 miles [743.5 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Holiday Park that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wood County community of Holiday Park.
Pennsylvania
Allegheny County
This Holiday Park is located in Allegheny County and lies 365 miles [587.4 km]<1> to the north of the Holiday Park that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allegheny County community of Holiday Park.
Dauphin County
This Holiday Park is located in Dauphin County and lies 413 miles [664.7 km] to the north northeast of the Holiday Park that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dauphin County community of Holiday Park.
Virginia
Hampton City
This Holiday Park is located in Hampton City and lies 274 miles [441 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Holiday Park that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hampton City community of Holiday Park.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Holiday 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.
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 Holiday Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Holiday Park 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 Holiday Park 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 322 miles [518.2 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 6,213 miles [9,998.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,911 miles [11,122.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,791 miles [7,710.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Holiday 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 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 Holiday 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 Holiday 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 Holiday Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2449, Longitude: -80.6998 In this case, the coordinates for Holiday Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.139 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.461 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.443 degrees.