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 Irongate:
35.785429, -78.766395
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 found seven communities that share the name Irongate.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Irongate.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Wayne County
This Irongate is located in Wayne County and lies 55 miles [88.5 km]<1> to the southeast of the Irongate that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Irongate.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Bulloch County
This Irongate is located in Bulloch County and lies 291 miles [468.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Irongate that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bulloch County community of Irongate.
Maryland
Carroll County
This Irongate is located in Carroll County and lies 270 miles [434.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Irongate that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Irongate.
Frederick County
This Irongate is located in Frederick County and lies 262 miles [421.6 km] to the north northeast of the Irongate that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of Irongate.
New York
Onondaga 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 York community of Irongate [Onondaga County].
South Carolina
Beaufort County
This Irongate is located in Beaufort County and lies 256 miles [412 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Irongate that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Beaufort County community of Irongate.
Tennessee
Hamilton County
This Irongate is located in Hamilton County and lies 364 miles [585.8 km]<1> to the west of the Irongate that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Irongate.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Irongate ...
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.
Blackhawk (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blackhawk have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Irongate to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Irongate and extending to:
The White House (Washington, DC) is 234 miles [376.6 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Irongate to White House, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 14 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 10 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,105 miles [9,825 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,801 miles [10,945.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,682 miles [7,534.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Irongate) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Irongate. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7854, Longitude: -78.7664 In this case, the coordinates for Irongate 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 Irongate 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 Irongate 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 309.024 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.263 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.521 degrees.