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 Shannon Park:
35.242088, -80.757014
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.
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 four communities that share the name Shannon Park.
There are two communities within North Carolina that are also named Shannon Park.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these two communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Rockingham County
This Shannon Park is located in Rockingham County and lies 99 miles [159.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the Shannon Park that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockingham County community of Shannon Park.
Rowan County
This Shannon Park is located in Rowan County and lies 37 miles [59.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Shannon Park that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rowan County community of Shannon Park.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Nova Scotia
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 Nova Scotia community of Shannon Park.
South Carolina
Berkeley County
This Shannon Park is located in Berkeley County and lies 159 miles [255.9 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Shannon Park that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Berkeley County community of Shannon Park.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Shannon Park ...
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 south)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coventry Woods have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Shannon Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Shannon Park and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 124 miles [199.6 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Shannon Park 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 325 miles [523 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 6,216 miles [10,003.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,914 miles [11,127 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,794 miles [7,715.2 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Shannon Park) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Shannon Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2421, Longitude: -80.7570 In this case, the coordinates for Shannon Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Shannon Park 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>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<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 Shannon Park to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.172 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.498 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.466 degrees.