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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 Tyro:
35.809123, -80.372725
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 found four communities that are also named Tyro.
Within North Carolina, the name Tyro is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arkansas
Lincoln County
This Tyro is located in Lincoln County and lies 657 miles [1,057.3 km]<1> to the west of the Tyro that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of Tyro.
Kansas
Montgomery County
This Tyro is located in Montgomery County and lies 861 miles [1,385.6 km]<1> to the west of the Tyro that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Tyro.
Mississippi
Tate County
This Tyro is located in Tate County and lies 533 miles [857.8 km]<1> to the west of the Tyro that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tate County community of Tyro.
Virginia
Nelson County
This Tyro is located in Nelson County and lies 158 miles [254.3 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Tyro that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nelson County community of Tyro.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Tyro ...
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 Tyro to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Tyro and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 96 miles [154.5 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Tyro to Raleigh, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take three full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 281 miles [452.2 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 16 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,174 miles [9,936.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,874 miles [11,062.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,753 miles [7,649.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 from Point A (ie- Tyro) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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.
<3>
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 Tyro 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 Tyro. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8091, Longitude: -80.3727
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.948 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.324 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.143 degrees.