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 Oakwood Park:
40.709546, -74.406819
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 Oakwood Park
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 Union County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found nine communities that are also named Oakwood Park.
Within New Jersey, the name Oakwood Park is unique.
Beyond New Jersey, we know of nine communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Indiana
Kosciusko County
This Oakwood Park is located in Kosciusko County and lies 591 miles [951.1 km]<1> to the west of the Oakwood Park that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kosciusko County community of Oakwood Park.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Oakwood Park is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 159 miles [255.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Oakwood Park that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Oakwood Park.
Michigan
Wayne 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 Michigan community of Oakwood Park [Wayne County].
Missouri
Clay County
This Oakwood Park is located in Clay County and lies 1,070 miles [1,722 km]<1> to the west of the Oakwood Park that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clay County community of Oakwood Park.
Ohio
Washington County
This Oakwood Park is located in Washington County and lies 382 miles [614.8 km]<1> to the west of the Oakwood Park that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Oakwood Park.
Pennsylvania
Cumberland County
This Oakwood Park is located in Cumberland County and lies 137 miles [220.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Oakwood Park that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Oakwood Park.
Luzerne 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 Pennsylvania community of Oakwood Park [Luzerne County].
South Carolina
Beaufort County
This Oakwood Park is located in Beaufort County and lies 668 miles [1,075 km]<1> to the southwest of the Oakwood Park that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Beaufort County community of Oakwood Park.
Virginia
Montgomery County
This Oakwood Park is located in Montgomery County and lies 405 miles [651.8 km]<1> to the southwest of the Oakwood Park that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Oakwood Park.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Oakwood Park ...
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 Oakwood Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Oakwood Park and extending to:
Elizabeth, which is the Seat of Union County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the east southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Oakwood Park to Elizabeth, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
Trenton, which is the State Capital of New Jersey, lies 38 miles [61.2 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take just about two full days and walking would take over two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 187 miles [300.9 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 11 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,711 miles [9,191 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,417 miles [10,327.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,294 miles [6,910.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Oakwood Park) 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 Oakwood Park 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 Oakwood Park 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 Oakwood Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.7095, Longitude: -74.4068 In this case, the coordinates for Oakwood Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.182 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.787 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.84 degrees.