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 Sedgefield:
34.279336, -77.920543
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 Sedgefield
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 New Hanover County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found fourteen communities that are also named Sedgefield.
There are four communities within North Carolina that are also named Sedgefield.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Guilford County
This Sedgefield is located in Guilford County and lies 163 miles [262.3 km]<1> to the northwest of the Sedgefield that is located in New Hanover County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Guilford County community of Sedgefield.
Mecklenburg County
This Sedgefield is located in Mecklenburg County and lies 178 miles [286.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Sedgefield that is located in New Hanover County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mecklenburg County community of Sedgefield.
Orange County
This Sedgefield is located in Orange County and lies 133 miles [214 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Sedgefield that is located in New Hanover County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orange County community of Sedgefield.
Pitt County
This Sedgefield is located in Pitt County and lies 94 miles [151.3 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Sedgefield that is located in New Hanover County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pitt County community of Sedgefield.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Bullock County
This Sedgefield is located in Bullock County and lies 472 miles [759.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Sedgefield that is located in New Hanover County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bullock County community of Sedgefield.
Dallas County
This Sedgefield is located in Dallas County and lies 562 miles [904.5 km] to the west of the Sedgefield that is located in New Hanover County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dallas County community of Sedgefield.
Georgia
Clarke County
This Sedgefield is located in Clarke County and lies 317 miles [510.2 km]<1> to the west of the Sedgefield that is located in New Hanover County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clarke County community of Sedgefield.
Columbia County
This Sedgefield is located in Columbia County and lies 247 miles [397.5 km] to the west of the Sedgefield that is located in New Hanover County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Sedgefield.
Houston County
This Sedgefield is located in Houston County and lies 350 miles [563.3 km] to the west southwest of the Sedgefield that is located in New Hanover County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Houston County community of Sedgefield.
New Jersey
Morris 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 Jersey community of Sedgefield [Morris County].
South Carolina
Anderson County
This Sedgefield is located in Anderson County and lies 270 miles [434.5 km]<1> to the west of the Sedgefield that is located in New Hanover County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Sedgefield.
Berkeley County
This Sedgefield is located in Berkeley County and lies 150 miles [241.4 km] to the southwest of the Sedgefield that is located in New Hanover County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Berkeley County community of Sedgefield.
York County
This Sedgefield is located in York County and lies 181 miles [291.3 km] to the west northwest of the Sedgefield that is located in New Hanover County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Sedgefield.
Virginia
Newport News City
This Sedgefield is located in Newport News City and lies 207 miles [333.1 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Sedgefield that is located in New Hanover County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Newport News City community of Sedgefield.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sedgefield ...
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.
Council Heights (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
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 Sedgefield to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sedgefield and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 111 miles [178.6 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Sedgefield to Raleigh, with an average speed<3>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 322 miles [518.2 km] to the north (N). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 19 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,133 miles [9,870.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,819 miles [10,974.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,705 miles [7,572 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sedgefield) 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Sedgefield 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 Sedgefield 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 Sedgefield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.2793, Longitude: -77.9205 In this case, the coordinates for Sedgefield have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.577 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.529 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.692 degrees.