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 Oak Orchard:
43.205901, -76.212427
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 Oak Orchard
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 Onondaga County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named Oak Orchard.
There is one other community in New York that is also named Oak Orchard.
Beyond New York, we know of five communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, five are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In New York ...
Orleans County
This Oak Orchard is located in Orleans County and lies 106 miles [170.6 km]<1> to the west of the Oak Orchard that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orleans County community of Oak Orchard.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Delaware
Sussex County
This Oak Orchard is located in Sussex County and lies 322 miles [518.2 km]<1> to the south of the Oak Orchard that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sussex County community of Oak Orchard.
Maryland
Frederick County
This Oak Orchard is located in Frederick County and lies 261 miles [420 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Oak Orchard that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of Oak Orchard.
Prince George's 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 Oak Orchard [Prince George's County].
Ontario
This Oak Orchard lies 141 miles [226.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Oak Orchard that is located in Onondaga County.
Wisconsin
Oconto County
This Oak Orchard is located in Oconto County and lies 591 miles [951.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Oak Orchard that is located in Onondaga County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oconto County community of Oak Orchard.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Oak Orchard ...
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 & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Oak Orchard to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Oak Orchard and extending to:
Syracuse, which is the Seat of Onondaga County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Oak Orchard to Syracuse, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 129 miles [207.6 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 8 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 300 miles [482.8 km] to the south (S). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 12 days and walking would take 17 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,682 miles [9,144.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,403 miles [10,304.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,279 miles [6,886.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Oak Orchard) 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Oak Orchard 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 Oak Orchard 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 Oak Orchard. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.2059, Longitude: -76.2124 In this case, the coordinates for Oak Orchard have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.02 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.135 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.55 degrees.