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 Westchester:
35.827928, -78.672782
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 Westchester
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 26 communities that are also named Westchester.
There are two communities within North Carolina that are also named Westchester.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of 24 communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these 24 communities, 25 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Cumberland County
This Westchester is located in Cumberland County and lies 58 miles [93.3 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Westchester.
Mecklenburg County
This Westchester is located in Mecklenburg County and lies 131 miles [210.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mecklenburg County community of Westchester.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Los Angeles County
This Westchester is located in Los Angeles County and lies 2,238 miles [3,601.7 km]<1> to the west of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Los Angeles County community of Westchester.
Connecticut
New London County
This Westchester is located in New London County and lies 519 miles [835.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New London County community of Westchester.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Westchester is located in Hillsborough County and lies 583 miles [938.2 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Westchester.
Miami-Dade County
This Westchester is located in Miami-Dade County and lies 702 miles [1,129.8 km] to the south of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Miami-Dade County community of Westchester.
Georgia
Bulloch County
This Westchester is located in Bulloch County and lies 292 miles [469.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bulloch County community of Westchester.
Clarke County
This Westchester is located in Clarke County and lies 298 miles [479.6 km] to the west southwest of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clarke County community of Westchester.
Illinois
Cook County
This Westchester is located in Cook County and lies 646 miles [1,039.6 km]<1> to the northwest of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Westchester.
Indiana
Allen County
This Westchester is located in Allen County and lies 500 miles [804.7 km]<1> to the northwest of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allen County community of Westchester.
Jay County
This Westchester is located in Jay County and lies 466 miles [750 km] to the northwest of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jay County community of Westchester.
Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish
This Westchester is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 809 miles [1,302 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of Westchester.
Maryland
Baltimore County
This Westchester is located in Baltimore County and lies 260 miles [418.4 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Westchester.
Frederick County
This Westchester is located in Frederick County and lies 258 miles [415.2 km] to the north northeast of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of Westchester.
Montgomery 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 Maryland community of Westchester [Montgomery County].
Massachusetts
Worcester County
This Westchester is located in Worcester County and lies 577 miles [928.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Worcester County community of Westchester.
New York
Bronx County
This Westchester is located in Bronx County and lies 433 miles [696.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bronx County community of Westchester.
Westchester 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 New York community of Westchester [Westchester County].
Nova Scotia
This Westchester lies 1,031 miles [1,659.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
South Carolina
Charleston County
This Westchester is located in Charleston County and lies 227 miles [365.3 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charleston County community of Westchester.
Virginia
Chesterfield County
This Westchester is located in Chesterfield County and lies 132 miles [212.4 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chesterfield County community of Westchester.
Fairfax 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 Westchester [Fairfax County].
Petersburg City
This Westchester is located in Petersburg City and lies 119 miles [191.5 km] to the northeast of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Petersburg City community of Westchester.
Prince William County
This Westchester is located in Prince William County and lies 209 miles [336.4 km] to the north northeast of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Prince William County community of Westchester.
West Virginia
Marion County
This Westchester is located in Marion County and lies 264 miles [424.9 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Westchester that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Westchester.
Wisconsin
Waukesha 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 Wisconsin community of Westchester [Waukesha County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Westchester ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Westchester to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Westchester and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the Seat of Wake County, lies just to the South Southeast.
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies just to the south southeast (SSE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 230 miles [370.1 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Westchester to White House, with an average speed<3>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 13 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 9 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,100 miles [9,817 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,795 miles [10,935.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,676 miles [7,525.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Westchester) 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 Westchester 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>
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 Westchester 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 Westchester. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8279, Longitude: -78.6728 In this case, the coordinates for Westchester have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.97 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.207 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.471 degrees.