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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 Ridgewood Acres:
35.859026, -80.208938
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 Ridgewood Acres
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 two communities that are also named Ridgewood Acres.
Within North Carolina, the name Ridgewood Acres is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Ohio
Guernsey County
This Ridgewood Acres is located in Guernsey County and lies 297 miles [478 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Ridgewood Acres that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Guernsey County community of Ridgewood Acres.
Tennessee
Hamilton County
This Ridgewood Acres is located in Hamilton County and lies 288 miles [463.5 km]<1> to the west of the Ridgewood Acres that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Ridgewood Acres.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Ridgewood Acres ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Ridgewood Acres to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Ridgewood Acres and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 87 miles [140 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Ridgewood Acres to Raleigh, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 272 miles [437.7 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<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,165 miles [9,921.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,864 miles [11,046.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,743 miles [7,633.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 from Point A (ie- Ridgewood Acres) 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.
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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.
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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 Ridgewood Acres 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 Ridgewood Acres. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8590, Longitude: -80.2089 In this case, the coordinates for Ridgewood Acres have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.852 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.222 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.063 degrees.