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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 Ivy Meadows:
35.775152, -78.756117
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 two communities that share the name Ivy Meadows.
Within North Carolina, the name Ivy Meadows is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maryland
Baltimore County
This Ivy Meadows is located in Baltimore County and lies 273 miles [439.4 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Ivy Meadows that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Ivy Meadows.
Virginia
Albemarle County
This Ivy Meadows is located in Albemarle County and lies 157 miles [252.7 km]<1> to the north of the Ivy Meadows that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Albemarle County community of Ivy Meadows.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Ivy 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.
Blackhawk (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blackhawk have been provided by the GNIS.<2> 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 Ivy Meadows to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Ivy Meadows and extending to:
The White House (Washington, DC) is 235 miles [378.2 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Ivy Meadows to White House, with an average speed<3>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<4> 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).<5>
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).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,682 miles [7,534.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
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 from Point A (ie- Ivy Meadows) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ivy Meadows. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7752, Longitude: -78.7561 In this case, the coordinates for Ivy Meadows have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>
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.
<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 Ivy Meadows to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.018 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.255 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.521 degrees.