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 Redwood Village:
35.540715, -78.269165
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 Redwood Village
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 Johnston County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Redwood Village.
There is one other community in North Carolina that is also named Redwood Village.
Beyond North Carolina, there is another community also named Redwood Village in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Buncombe County
This Redwood Village is located in Buncombe County and lies 238 miles [383 km]<1> to the west of the Redwood Village that is located in Johnston County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Buncombe County community of Redwood Village.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Redwood Village is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,852 miles [2,980.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Redwood Village that is located in Johnston County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Redwood Village.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Redwood Village ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Redwood Village to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Redwood Village and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 26 miles [41.8 km]<1> to the northwest (NW). If you could walk a straight line from Redwood Village to Raleigh, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 241 miles [387.9 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 10 days and walking would take 14 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,094 miles [9,807.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,787 miles [10,922.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,669 miles [7,514 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Redwood Village) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Redwood Village 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 Redwood Village. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.5407, Longitude: -78.2692 In this case, the coordinates for Redwood Village have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.747 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.91 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.41 degrees.