Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Lawndale, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Lawndale and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Lawndale
- Astronomy & Satellites ...
- 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 Lawndale:
- 35.414315, -81.562774
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Lawndale
- 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 Cleveland County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Cleveland County
- Since Lawndale is near Lincoln County and also Gaston County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Lincoln County
- eBird sighting report for Gaston County
- Waymarking ...
- Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Lawndale ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Lawndale.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Lawndale.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another nineteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Los Angeles County
- This Lawndale is located in Los Angeles County and lies 2,080 miles [3,347.4 km]<2> to the west of the Lawndale that is located in Cleveland County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Los Angeles County community of Lawndale.
- Sonoma County
- This Lawndale is located in Sonoma County and lies 2,254 miles [3,627.5 km] to the west northwest of the Lawndale that is located in Cleveland County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sonoma County community of Lawndale.
- Delaware
- Florida
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Jackson County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lawndale [Jackson County].
- Pratt 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 Kansas community of Lawndale [Pratt County].
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Kalamazoo County
- This Lawndale is located in Kalamazoo County and lies 518 miles [833.6 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Lawndale that is located in Cleveland County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kalamazoo County community of Lawndale.
- Saginaw County
- This Lawndale is located in Saginaw County and lies 572 miles [920.5 km] to the north northwest of the Lawndale that is located in Cleveland County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saginaw County community of Lawndale.
- Sanilac County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Lawndale [Sanilac County].
- Minnesota
- Ohio
- Stark County
- This Lawndale is located in Stark County and lies 370 miles [595.5 km]<2> to the north of the Lawndale that is located in Cleveland County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stark County community of Lawndale.
- Summit County
- This Lawndale is located in Summit County and lies 388 miles [624.4 km] to the north of the Lawndale that is located in Cleveland County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Summit County community of Lawndale.
- Pennsylvania
- Bucks County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lawndale [Bucks County].
- Montgomery 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 Pennsylvania community of Lawndale [Montgomery County].
- Philadelphia County
- This Lawndale is located in Philadelphia County and lies 476 miles [766 km]<2> to the northeast of the Lawndale that is located in Cleveland County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Philadelphia County community of Lawndale.
- Texas
- California
Curious and Interesting Names Near Lawndale ...
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.
- Delight
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest) - Double Shoals
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Double Shoals have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Shoals
- Double Shoals is located in Cleveland County
- Dover
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south) - Five Points
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Five Points have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
- Five Points is located in Cleveland County
- Flay
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast) - Kingstown
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest) - Knob Creek
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Knob Creek. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knob Creek
- Knob Creek is located in Cleveland County
- New House
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west) - Polkville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west) - Rockdale
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast) - Rollingwood
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rollingwood have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rollingwood
- Rollingwood is located in Cleveland County
- Zion
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
How Far From Lawndale to ...
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 town such as Lawndale to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Lawndale and extending to:
- Shelby, which is the Seat of Cleveland County, lies just to the South.
- Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 165 miles [265.5 km]<2> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Lawndale to Raleigh, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 10 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 7 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 346 miles [556.8 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 20 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,242 miles [10,045.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,944 miles [11,175.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,822 miles [7,760.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Lawndale. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Cleveland County: www.clevelandcounty.com/
The official website for State of North Carolina: https://www.nc.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Lawndale 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. |
| <2> | 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- Lawndale) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lawndale. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.4143, Longitude: -81.5628 In this case, the coordinates for Lawndale have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <3> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | 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 Lawndale to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.64 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.06 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.732 degrees. |