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 Whispering Oaks:
35.275143, -80.695624
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 Whispering Oaks
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 nine communities that are also named Whispering Oaks.
Within North Carolina, the name Whispering Oaks is unique.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of nine communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jefferson County
This Whispering Oaks is located in Jefferson County and lies 378 miles [608.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Whispering Oaks that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Whispering Oaks.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Whispering Oaks is located in Hillsborough County and lies 511 miles [822.4 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Whispering Oaks that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Whispering Oaks.
Illinois
Lake 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 Whispering Oaks [Lake County].
Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish
This Whispering Oaks is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 685 miles [1,102.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Whispering Oaks that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of Whispering Oaks.
Ohio
Stark County
This Whispering Oaks is located in Stark County and lies 381 miles [613.2 km]<1> to the north of the Whispering Oaks that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stark County community of Whispering Oaks.
Texas
Bexar 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 Texas community of Whispering Oaks [Bexar County].
Harris 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 Texas community of Whispering Oaks [Harris County].
Rains 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 Texas community of Whispering Oaks [Rains County].
Utah
Weber County
This Whispering Oaks is located in Weber County and lies 1,732 miles [2,787.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Whispering Oaks that is located in Mecklenburg County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of Whispering Oaks.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Whispering Oaks ...
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 Whispering Oaks to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Whispering Oaks and extending to:
Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 120 miles [193.1 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Whispering Oaks to Raleigh, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 321 miles [516.6 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,211 miles [9,995.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,910 miles [11,120.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,790 miles [7,708.8 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Whispering Oaks) 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 Whispering Oaks 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Whispering Oaks 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 Whispering Oaks. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2751, Longitude: -80.6956 In this case, the coordinates for Whispering Oaks have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.137 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.462 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.432 degrees.