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 Old Farm:
35.145145, -80.790626
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 ten communities that share the name Old Farm.
There are five communities within North Carolina that are also named Old Farm.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Caldwell County
This Old Farm is located in Caldwell County and lies 64 miles [103 km]<1> to the northwest of the Old Farm that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caldwell County community of Old Farm.
Cleveland County
This Old Farm is located in Cleveland County and lies 44 miles [70.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Old Farm that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cleveland County community of Old Farm.
Iredell County
This Old Farm is located in Iredell County and lies 45 miles [72.4 km]<1> to the north of the Old Farm that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Iredell County community of Old Farm.
Lenoir County
This Old Farm is located in Lenoir County and lies 180 miles [289.7 km]<1> to the east of the Old Farm that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lenoir County community of Old Farm.
Wake County
This Old Farm is located in Wake County and lies 123 miles [197.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Old Farm that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wake County community of Old Farm.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Illinois
DuPage 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 Illinois community of Old Farm [DuPage County].
Maryland
Frederick County
This Old Farm is located in Frederick County and lies 349 miles [561.7 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Old Farm that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of Old Farm.
Montgomery County
This Old Farm is located in Montgomery County and lies 336 miles [540.7 km] to the northeast of the Old Farm that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Old Farm.
South Carolina
York County
This Old Farm is located in York County and lies 19 miles [30.6 km]<1> to the southwest of the Old Farm that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Old Farm.
Tennessee
Hamilton County
This Old Farm is located in Hamilton County and lies 257 miles [413.6 km]<1> to the west of the Old Farm that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Old Farm.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Old Farm ...
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 (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Old Farm to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Old Farm and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 128 miles [206 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Old Farm 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 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 331 miles [532.7 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 6,221 miles [10,011.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,920 miles [11,136.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,799 miles [7,723.2 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 from Point A (ie- Old Farm) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Old Farm. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.1451, Longitude: -80.7906 In this case, the coordinates for Old Farm 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 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 Old Farm 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 Old Farm 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 310.191 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.506 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.508 degrees.