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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 Petersville:
35.825971, -80.414778
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.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Petersville
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 Davidson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found fifteen communities that are also named Petersville.
Within North Carolina, the name Petersville is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of fifteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Lauderdale County
This Petersville is located in Lauderdale County and lies 415 miles [667.9 km]<1> to the west of the Petersville that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lauderdale County community of Petersville.
Alaska
This Petersville lies 3,440 miles [5,536.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Petersville that is located in Davidson County.
Illinois
Mercer County
This Petersville is located in Mercer County and lies 680 miles [1,094.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Petersville that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mercer County community of Petersville.
Indiana
Bartholomew County
This Petersville is located in Bartholomew County and lies 377 miles [606.7 km]<1> to the northwest of the Petersville that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bartholomew County community of Petersville.
Iowa
Clinton County
This Petersville is located in Clinton County and lies 688 miles [1,107.2 km]<1> to the northwest of the Petersville that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clinton County community of Petersville.
Kentucky
Lewis County
This Petersville is located in Lewis County and lies 247 miles [397.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Petersville that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lewis County community of Petersville.
Maryland
Frederick County
This Petersville is located in Frederick County and lies 287 miles [461.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Petersville that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of Petersville.
Michigan
Benzie 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 Michigan community of Petersville [Benzie County].
Missouri
Franklin County
This Petersville is located in Franklin County and lies 598 miles [962.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Petersville that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Petersville.
New Brunswick
This community is historic<2> and we have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for Petersville.
Ontario
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 Ontario community of Petersville.
Pennsylvania
Butler County
This Petersville is located in Butler County and lies 345 miles [555.2 km]<1> to the north of the Petersville that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butler County community of Petersville.
Northampton County
This Petersville is located in Northampton County and lies 432 miles [695.2 km] to the northeast of the Petersville that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Northampton County community of Petersville.
Texas
DeWitt County
This Petersville is located in DeWitt County and lies 1,074 miles [1,728.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Petersville that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the DeWitt County community of Petersville.
Wisconsin
Waupaca County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Petersville [Waupaca County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Petersville ...
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.
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 community such as Petersville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Petersville and extending to:
Lexington, which is the Seat of Davidson County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the east. If you could walk a straight line from Petersville to Lexington, with an average speed<5> 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 99 miles [159.3 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 281 miles [452.2 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 16 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,175 miles [9,937.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,875 miles [11,064.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,754 miles [7,650.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Petersville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Petersville 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>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Petersville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Petersville to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Petersville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8260, Longitude: -80.4148 In this case, the coordinates for Petersville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.972 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.354 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.154 degrees.