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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 Stony Hill:
35.981538, -78.611625
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.
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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 seven communities that are also named Stony Hill.
There is one other community in North Carolina that is also named Stony Hill.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of six communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, six are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Wilkes County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Stony Hill [Wilkes County].
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Warren County
This Stony Hill is located in Warren County and lies 294 miles [473.1 km]<2> to the southwest of the Stony Hill that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Stony Hill.
Manitoba
This Stony Hill lies 1,293 miles [2,080.9 km]<2> to the northwest of the Stony Hill that is located in Wake County.
Missouri
Gasconade County
This Stony Hill is located in Gasconade County and lies 722 miles [1,161.9 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Stony Hill that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gasconade County community of Stony Hill.
New Jersey
Union County
This Stony Hill is located in Union County and lies 395 miles [635.7 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Stony Hill that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Stony Hill.
New York
Albany County
This Stony Hill is located in Albany County and lies 521 miles [838.5 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Stony Hill that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Albany County community of Stony Hill.
Ohio
Scioto County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Scioto County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Scioto County community of Stony Hill.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Stony Hill ...
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 Stony Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Stony Hill and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the Seat of Wake County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<2> to the south. If you could walk a straight line from Stony Hill to Raleigh, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 13 miles [20.9 km] to the south (S). The buggy would take four to five hours and walking would take 6 hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 219 miles [352.4 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 13 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,090 miles [9,800.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,786 miles [10,921 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,667 miles [7,510.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Stony Hill 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.
<2>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Stony Hill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Stony Hill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>
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.
<6>
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 Stony Hill 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 Stony Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.9815, Longitude: -78.6116
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.931 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.186 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.396 degrees.