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 Ravenwood:
35.247087, -80.725069
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 Ravenwood
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 twenty communities that are also named Ravenwood.
There are five communities within North Carolina that are also named Ravenwood.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of fifteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Davidson County
This Ravenwood is located in Davidson County and lies 39 miles [62.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the Ravenwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davidson County community of Ravenwood.
Henderson County
This Ravenwood is located in Henderson County and lies 96 miles [154.5 km]<1> to the west of the Ravenwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henderson County community of Ravenwood.
Randolph County
This Ravenwood is located in Randolph County and lies 62 miles [99.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the Ravenwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Randolph County community of Ravenwood.
Rockingham County
This Ravenwood is located in Rockingham County and lies 98 miles [157.7 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Ravenwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockingham County community of Ravenwood.
Wayne County
This Ravenwood is located in Wayne County and lies 158 miles [254.3 km]<1> to the east of the Ravenwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Ravenwood.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Delaware
Kent County
This Ravenwood is located in Kent County and lies 398 miles [640.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Ravenwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kent County community of Ravenwood.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Ravenwood is located in Hillsborough County and lies 512 miles [824 km]<1> to the south of the Ravenwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Ravenwood.
Georgia
Richmond 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 Georgia community of Ravenwood [Richmond County].
Louisiana
Lafourche Parish
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 Louisiana community of Ravenwood [Lafourche Parish].
Michigan
Monroe 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 Ravenwood [Monroe County].
Missouri
Jackson 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 Missouri community of Ravenwood [Jackson County].
Nodaway County
This Ravenwood is located in Nodaway County and lies 837 miles [1,347 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Ravenwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nodaway County community of Ravenwood.
New York
Albany 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 New York community of Ravenwood [Albany County].
Queens 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 New York community of Ravenwood [Queens County].
South Carolina
Richland County
This Ravenwood is located in Richland County and lies 84 miles [135.2 km]<1> to the south of the Ravenwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richland County community of Ravenwood.
York County
This Ravenwood is located in York County and lies 26 miles [41.8 km] to the south southwest of the Ravenwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Ravenwood.
Tennessee
Rutherford County
This Ravenwood is located in Rutherford County and lies 321 miles [516.6 km]<1> to the west of the Ravenwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Ravenwood.
Texas
Brazos County
Although located in Brazos County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brazos County community of Ravenwood.
Virginia
Fairfax County
This Ravenwood is located in Fairfax County and lies 317 miles [510.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Ravenwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfax County community of Ravenwood.
Prince William County
This Ravenwood is located in Prince William County and lies 302 miles [486 km] to the northeast of the Ravenwood that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Prince William County community of Ravenwood.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Ravenwood ...
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.
Coventry Woods (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
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 Ravenwood to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Ravenwood and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 122 miles [196.3 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Ravenwood to Raleigh, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 323 miles [519.8 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 6,214 miles [10,000.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,913 miles [11,125.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,792 miles [7,712 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Ravenwood) 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 Ravenwood 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 Ravenwood, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Ravenwood 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 Ravenwood. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2471, Longitude: -80.7251 In this case, the coordinates for Ravenwood have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.154 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.478 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.452 degrees.