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 Homestead Acres:
35.759860, -80.224772
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 Homestead 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 Davidson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Homestead Acres.
Within North Carolina, the name Homestead Acres is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Bartow County
This Homestead Acres is located in Bartow County and lies 277 miles [445.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Homestead Acres that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bartow County community of Homestead Acres.
South Carolina
Greenville County
This Homestead Acres is located in Greenville County and lies 132 miles [212.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Homestead Acres that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenville County community of Homestead Acres.
Tennessee
Blount County
This Homestead Acres is located in Blount County and lies 215 miles [346 km]<1> to the west of the Homestead Acres that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blount County community of Homestead Acres.
Bradley County
This Homestead Acres is located in Bradley County and lies 260 miles [418.4 km] to the west of the Homestead Acres that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bradley County community of Homestead Acres.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Homestead 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 & 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 Homestead Acres to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Homestead Acres and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 88 miles [141.6 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Homestead Acres to Raleigh, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 278 miles [447.4 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 16 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,170 miles [9,929.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,869 miles [11,054.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,748 miles [7,641.2 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 from Point A (ie- Homestead Acres) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Homestead 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 Homestead Acres. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7599, Longitude: -80.2248 In this case, the coordinates for Homestead Acres have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.862 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.219 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.10 degrees.