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 Sunset Hills:
35.306251, -80.874517
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 Sunset Hills
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 Mecklenburg County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found nineteen communities that are also named Sunset Hills.
There are three communities within North Carolina that are also named Sunset Hills.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of sixteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Catawba 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 Sunset Hills [Catawba County].
Guilford County
This Sunset Hills is located in Guilford County and lies 79 miles [127.1 km]<2> to the northeast of the Sunset Hills that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Guilford County community of Sunset Hills.
Rockingham County
This Sunset Hills is located in Rockingham County and lies 101 miles [162.5 km]<2> to the northeast of the Sunset Hills that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockingham County community of Sunset Hills.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arizona
Maricopa County
This Sunset Hills is located in Maricopa County and lies 1,770 miles [2,848.5 km]<2> to the west of the Sunset Hills that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Maricopa County community of Sunset Hills.
California
Los Angeles 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 California community of Sunset Hills [Los Angeles County].
San Bernardino County
This Sunset Hills is located in San Bernardino County and lies 2,047 miles [3,294.3 km]<2> to the west of the Sunset Hills that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Bernardino County community of Sunset Hills.
Georgia
Clayton County
This Sunset Hills is located in Clayton County and lies 227 miles [365.3 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Sunset Hills that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clayton County community of Sunset Hills.
Paulding County
This Sunset Hills is located in Paulding County and lies 243 miles [391.1 km] to the west southwest of the Sunset Hills that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Paulding County community of Sunset Hills.
Illinois
Cook 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 Illinois community of Sunset Hills [Cook County].
Will County
This Sunset Hills is located in Will County and lies 583 miles [938.2 km]<2> to the northwest of the Sunset Hills that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Will County community of Sunset Hills.
Maryland
Frederick 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 Maryland community of Sunset Hills [Frederick County].
Missouri
Saint Louis County
This Sunset Hills is located in Saint Louis County and lies 571 miles [918.9 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Sunset Hills that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Louis County community of Sunset Hills.
Pennsylvania
Beaver 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 Pennsylvania community of Sunset Hills [Beaver County].
Tennessee
Hamblen County
This Sunset Hills is located in Hamblen County and lies 151 miles [243 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Sunset Hills that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamblen County community of Sunset Hills.
Sullivan County
This Sunset Hills is located in Sullivan County and lies 123 miles [197.9 km] to the northwest of the Sunset Hills that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sullivan County community of Sunset Hills.
Utah
Davis County
This Sunset Hills is located in Davis County and lies 1,719 miles [2,766.5 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Sunset Hills that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davis County community of Sunset Hills.
Salt Lake County
This Sunset Hills is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,725 miles [2,776.1 km] to the west northwest of the Sunset Hills that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Sunset Hills.
Virginia
Fairfax County
This Sunset Hills is located in Fairfax County and lies 317 miles [510.2 km]<2> to the northeast of the Sunset Hills that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfax County community of Sunset Hills.
Roanoke City
This Sunset Hills is located in Roanoke City and lies 142 miles [228.5 km] to the north northeast of the Sunset Hills that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roanoke City community of Sunset Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sunset Hills ...
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 Sunset Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sunset Hills and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 129 miles [207.6 km]<2> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Sunset Hills to Raleigh, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 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<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,218 miles [10,006.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,917 miles [11,131.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,796 miles [7,718.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 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 Sunset Hills 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sunset Hills) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Sunset Hills 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 Sunset Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.3063, Longitude: -80.8745 In this case, the coordinates for Sunset Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.24 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.585 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.493 degrees.