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 Silverton:
35.819872, -78.792784
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 Silverton
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 eighteen communities that are also named Silverton.
Within North Carolina, the name Silverton is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of eighteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
British Columbia
This Silverton lies 2,149 miles [3,458.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Silverton that is located in Wake County.
Colorado
San Juan County
This Silverton is located in San Juan County and lies 1,595 miles [2,566.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Silverton that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Juan County community of Silverton.
Idaho
Shoshone County
This Silverton is located in Shoshone County and lies 2,055 miles [3,307.2 km]<1> to the northwest of the Silverton that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shoshone County community of Silverton.
Illinois
Jasper 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 Illinois community of Silverton [Jasper County].
Kansas
Pratt 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 Kansas community of Silverton [Pratt County].
Stafford County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Silverton [Stafford County].
Manitoba
This Silverton lies 1,514 miles [2,436.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Silverton that is located in Wake County.
Missouri
Douglas County
This Silverton is located in Douglas County and lies 768 miles [1,236 km]<1> to the west of the Silverton that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Douglas County community of Silverton.
Nevada
Nye County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Nye County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nye County community of Silverton.
New Jersey
Ocean County
This Silverton is located in Ocean County and lies 384 miles [618 km]<1> to the northeast of the Silverton that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ocean County community of Silverton.
Newfoundland and Labrador
This Silverton lies 1,409 miles [2,267.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Silverton that is located in Wake County.
Ohio
Hamilton County
This Silverton is located in Hamilton County and lies 385 miles [619.6 km]<1> to the northwest of the Silverton that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Silverton.
Oregon
Marion County
This Silverton is located in Marion County and lies 2,366 miles [3,807.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Silverton that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Silverton.
Pennsylvania
Schuylkill County
This Silverton is located in Schuylkill County and lies 360 miles [579.4 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Silverton that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Schuylkill County community of Silverton.
Texas
Briscoe County
This Silverton is located in Briscoe County and lies 1,271 miles [2,045.5 km]<1> to the west of the Silverton that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Briscoe County community of Silverton.
Virginia
Southampton 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 Virginia community of Silverton [Southampton County].
Washington
Snohomish County
This Silverton is located in Snohomish County and lies 2,318 miles [3,730.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Silverton that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Snohomish County community of Silverton.
West Virginia
Jackson County
This Silverton is located in Jackson County and lies 268 miles [431.3 km]<1> to the northwest of the Silverton that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Silverton.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Silverton ...
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 Silverton to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Silverton and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the Seat of Wake County, lies just to the East Southeast.
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies just to the east southeast (ESE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 233 miles [375 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Silverton to White House, with an average speed<4>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 14 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 10 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,105 miles [9,825 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,801 miles [10,945.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,682 miles [7,534.9 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- Silverton) 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 Silverton 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>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Silverton, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Silverton 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 Silverton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8199, Longitude: -78.7928 In this case, the coordinates for Silverton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.038 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.284 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.52 degrees.