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 Kingswood:
35.120979, -80.825627
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 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 nineteen communities that share the name Kingswood.
There are three communities within North Carolina that are also named Kingswood.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Henderson County
This Kingswood is located in Henderson County and lies 91 miles [146.5 km]<1> to the west of the Kingswood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henderson County community of Kingswood.
Iredell County
This Kingswood is located in Iredell County and lies 50 miles [80.5 km]<1> to the north of the Kingswood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Iredell County community of Kingswood.
Union County
This Kingswood is located in Union County and lies 18 miles [29 km]<1> to the southeast of the Kingswood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Kingswood.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Elmore County
This Kingswood is located in Elmore County and lies 366 miles [589 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Kingswood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Elmore County community of Kingswood.
Georgia
Bulloch County
This Kingswood is located in Bulloch County and lies 192 miles [309 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Kingswood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bulloch County community of Kingswood.
Clarke County
This Kingswood is located in Clarke County and lies 170 miles [273.6 km] to the west southwest of the Kingswood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clarke County community of Kingswood.
Fayette County
This Kingswood is located in Fayette County and lies 237 miles [381.4 km] to the west southwest of the Kingswood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Kingswood.
Kentucky
Breckinridge County
This Kingswood is located in Breckinridge County and lies 358 miles [576.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Kingswood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Breckinridge County community of Kingswood.
Louisiana
Orleans Parish
This Kingswood is located in Orleans Parish and lies 635 miles [1,021.9 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Kingswood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orleans Parish community of Kingswood.
Maryland
Harford County
This Kingswood is located in Harford County and lies 387 miles [622.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the Kingswood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Kingswood.
New Jersey
Camden 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 Jersey community of Kingswood [Camden County].
Hunterdon County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New Jersey community of Kingswood [Hunterdon County].
New Mexico
Lincoln 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 Mexico community of Kingswood [Lincoln County].
South Carolina
Horry County
This Kingswood is located in Horry County and lies 151 miles [243 km]<1> to the southeast of the Kingswood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Horry County community of Kingswood.
Richland County
This Kingswood is located in Richland County and lies 75 miles [120.7 km] to the south southwest of the Kingswood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richland County community of Kingswood.
Tennessee
Hamblen County
This Kingswood is located in Hamblen County and lies 154 miles [247.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Kingswood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamblen County community of Kingswood.
Texas
Dallas County
This Kingswood is located in Dallas County and lies 941 miles [1,514.4 km]<1> to the west of the Kingswood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dallas County community of Kingswood.
Virginia
James City County
This Kingswood is located in James City County and lies 270 miles [434.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Kingswood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the James City County community of Kingswood.
Nelson County
This Kingswood is located in Nelson County and lies 205 miles [329.9 km] to the north northeast of the Kingswood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nelson County community of Kingswood.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Kingswood ...
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.
Bishops Ridge (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bishops Ridge 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 Kingswood to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Kingswood and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 131 miles [210.8 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Kingswood to Raleigh, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 334 miles [537.5 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,224 miles [10,016.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,922 miles [11,139.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,802 miles [7,728.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Kingswood) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Kingswood. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.1210, Longitude: -80.8256 In this case, the coordinates for Kingswood 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 Kingswood 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 Kingswood 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 310.212 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.526 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.528 degrees.