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 Greenlawn:
39.408889, -84.484444
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 Greenlawn
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 Butler County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found seven communities that are also named Greenlawn.
There is one other community in Ohio that is also named Greenlawn.
Beyond Ohio, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Ohio ...
Franklin County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Greenlawn [Franklin County].
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maryland
Wicomico County
This Greenlawn is located in Wicomico County and lies 485 miles [780.5 km]<2> to the east of the Greenlawn that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wicomico County community of Greenlawn.
Missouri
Ralls County
This Greenlawn is located in Ralls County and lies 383 miles [616.4 km]<2> to the west of the Greenlawn that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ralls County community of Greenlawn.
New York
Suffolk County
This Greenlawn is located in Suffolk County and lies 595 miles [957.6 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Greenlawn that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Suffolk County community of Greenlawn.
South Carolina
Richland County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Greenlawn [Richland County].
Tennessee
Shelby County
This Greenlawn is located in Shelby County and lies 418 miles [672.7 km]<2> to the southwest of the Greenlawn that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shelby County community of Greenlawn.
Wilson County
This Greenlawn is located in Wilson County and lies 246 miles [395.9 km] to the south southwest of the Greenlawn that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wilson County community of Greenlawn.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Greenlawn ...
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 Greenlawn to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Greenlawn and extending to:
Columbus, which is the State Capital of Ohio, lies 88 miles [141.6 km]<2> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Greenlawn to Columbus, with an average speed<3>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 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 400 miles [643.7 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 23 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,180 miles [9,945.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,904 miles [11,110.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,780 miles [7,692.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 Greenlawn 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.
<2>
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- Greenlawn) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Greenlawn 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 Greenlawn. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.4089, Longitude: -84.4844 In this case, the coordinates for Greenlawn have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.413 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.668 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.80 degrees.