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 Rollingwood:
35.792651, -78.598336
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 Rollingwood
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 Wake County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found fifteen communities that are also named Rollingwood.
There are four communities within North Carolina that are also named Rollingwood.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Cleveland County
This Rollingwood is located in Cleveland County and lies 166 miles [267.2 km]<1> to the west of the Rollingwood that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cleveland County community of Rollingwood.
Cumberland County
This Rollingwood is located in Cumberland County and lies 49 miles [78.9 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Rollingwood that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Rollingwood.
Johnston County
This Rollingwood is located in Johnston County and lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the southeast of the Rollingwood that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Johnston County community of Rollingwood.
Pitt County
This Rollingwood is located in Pitt County and lies 68 miles [109.4 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Rollingwood that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pitt County community of Rollingwood.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Tuscaloosa County
This Rollingwood is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 538 miles [865.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Rollingwood that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of Rollingwood.
California
Contra Costa County
This Rollingwood is located in Contra Costa County and lies 2,397 miles [3,857.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Rollingwood that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Contra Costa County community of Rollingwood.
Georgia
Clarke County
This Rollingwood is located in Clarke County and lies 299 miles [481.2 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Rollingwood that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clarke County community of Rollingwood.
Floyd County
This Rollingwood is located in Floyd County and lies 390 miles [627.6 km] to the west southwest of the Rollingwood that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Floyd County community of Rollingwood.
Maryland
Montgomery County
This Rollingwood is located in Montgomery County and lies 235 miles [378.2 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Rollingwood that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Rollingwood.
South Carolina
Lexington County
This Rollingwood is located in Lexington County and lies 195 miles [313.8 km]<1> to the southwest of the Rollingwood that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lexington County community of Rollingwood.
Tennessee
Hamilton County
This Rollingwood is located in Hamilton County and lies 376 miles [605.1 km]<1> to the west of the Rollingwood that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Rollingwood.
Texas
Travis County
This Rollingwood is located in Travis County and lies 1,171 miles [1,884.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Rollingwood that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Travis County community of Rollingwood.
Virginia
Fairfax County
This Rollingwood is located in Fairfax County and lies 217 miles [349.2 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Rollingwood that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfax County community of Rollingwood.
Isle of Wight County
This Rollingwood is located in Isle of Wight County and lies 139 miles [223.7 km] to the northeast of the Rollingwood that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Isle of Wight County community of Rollingwood.
Portsmouth City
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 Virginia community of Rollingwood [Portsmouth City].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Rollingwood ...
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 Rollingwood to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Rollingwood and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the Seat of Wake County, lies just to the West Southwest.
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies just to the west southwest (WSW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 230 miles [370.1 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Rollingwood to White House, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 13 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 9 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,098 miles [9,813.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,793 miles [10,932.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,674 miles [7,522.1 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- Rollingwood) 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 Rollingwood 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>
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 Rollingwood 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 Rollingwood. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.7927, Longitude: -78.5983 In this case, the coordinates for Rollingwood have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.928 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.154 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.454 degrees.