Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Leesville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Leesville and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Leesville
- 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 Leesville:
- 35.907093, -78.726116
- 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 Leesville
- 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 Wake County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Wake County
- Since Leesville is near Durham County and also Chatham County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Durham County
- eBird sighting report for Chatham 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 Leesville ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Leesville.
There is one other community in North Carolina which is also named Leesville.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In North Carolina ...
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Connecticut
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Louisiana
- Michigan
- Missouri
- New Jersey
- New York
- Ohio
- Carroll County
- This Leesville is located in Carroll County and lies 341 miles [548.8 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Leesville that is located in Wake County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Leesville.
- Crawford County
- This Leesville is located in Crawford County and lies 402 miles [647 km] to the north northwest of the Leesville that is located in Wake County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Crawford County community of Leesville.
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Virginia
- Campbell County
- This Leesville is located in Campbell County and lies 91 miles [146.5 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Leesville that is located in Wake County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Campbell County community of Leesville.
- Suffolk City
- This Leesville is located in Suffolk City and lies 124 miles [199.6 km] to the east northeast of the Leesville that is located in Wake County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Suffolk City community of Leesville.
- Westmoreland County
- This Leesville is located in Westmoreland County and lies 179 miles [288.1 km] to the north northeast of the Leesville that is located in Wake County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Westmoreland County community of Leesville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Leesville ...
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.
- Chestnut Hills
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chestnut Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Hills
- Chestnut Hills is located in Wake County
- Dublin Woods
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dublin Woods have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dublin Woods
- Dublin Woods is located in Wake County
- Eden Forest
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eden Forest have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden Forest
- Eden Forest is located in Wake County
- Falls Church
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Falls Church have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls Church
- Falls Church is located in Wake County
- Glen Eden
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south) - Glen Forest
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Glen Forest have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Forest
- Glen Forest is located in Wake County
- Lake Anne
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south) - Lynn Crossroads
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lynn Crossroads have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynn Crossroads
- Lynn Crossroads is located in Durham County
- Markwood
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast) - Continue List (6 more) ...
- Pickwick Village
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pickwick Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pickwick Village
- Pickwick Village is located in Wake County
- Royal Hills
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Royal Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal Hills
- Royal Hills is located in Wake County
- Scarsdale
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast) - Six Forks
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast) - Village Gate
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Village Gate have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Village Gate
- Village Gate is located in Wake County
- Yorkshire Downs
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yorkshire Downs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yorkshire Downs
- Yorkshire Downs is located in Wake County
- Pickwick Village
How Far From Leesville to ...
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 Leesville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Leesville and extending to:
- Raleigh, which is the Seat of Wake County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Leesville to Raleigh, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
- Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 9 miles [14.5 km] to the south southeast (SSE). The buggy would take a little over three hours and walking would take four to five hours.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 226 miles [363.7 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 13 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,098 miles [9,813.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,794 miles [10,933.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,675 miles [7,523.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Leesville. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Wake County: www.wakegov.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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Leesville 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Leesville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Leesville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.9071, Longitude: -78.7261 In this case, the coordinates for Leesville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Leesville 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 308.998 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.251 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.466 degrees. |