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 Ramblewood:
35.128478, -80.898407
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 Ramblewood
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 Mecklenburg County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found nine communities that are also named Ramblewood.
Within North Carolina, the name Ramblewood is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of nine communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Delaware
New Castle 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 Delaware community of Ramblewood [New Castle County].
Indiana
LaGrange County
This Ramblewood is located in LaGrange County and lies 500 miles [804.7 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Ramblewood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the LaGrange County community of Ramblewood.
Maryland
Baltimore City
This Ramblewood is located in Baltimore City and lies 376 miles [605.1 km]<2> to the northeast of the Ramblewood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore City community of Ramblewood.
New Jersey
Burlington County
This Ramblewood is located in Burlington County and lies 464 miles [746.7 km]<2> to the northeast of the Ramblewood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Burlington County community of Ramblewood.
Pennsylvania
Berks County
This Ramblewood is located in Berks County and lies 452 miles [727.4 km]<2> to the northeast of the Ramblewood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Berks County community of Ramblewood.
Centre County
This Ramblewood is located in Centre County and lies 417 miles [671.1 km] to the north northeast of the Ramblewood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Centre County community of Ramblewood.
York County
This Ramblewood is located in York County and lies 411 miles [661.4 km] to the north northeast of the Ramblewood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Ramblewood.
Tennessee
Washington County
This Ramblewood is located in Washington County and lies 116 miles [186.7 km]<2> to the northwest of the Ramblewood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Ramblewood.
Virginia
Petersburg City
This Ramblewood is located in Petersburg City and lies 241 miles [387.9 km]<2> to the northeast of the Ramblewood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Petersburg City community of Ramblewood.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Ramblewood ...
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 Ramblewood to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Ramblewood and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 134 miles [215.7 km]<2> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Ramblewood to Raleigh, with an average speed<3>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 336 miles [540.7 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 19 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,227 miles [10,021.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,925 miles [11,144.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,805 miles [7,732.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 Ramblewood 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Ramblewood) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>
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.
<4>
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 Ramblewood 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 Ramblewood. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.1285, Longitude: -80.8984 In this case, the coordinates for Ramblewood have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.254 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.575 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.555 degrees.