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 Woodsdale:
39.434320, -84.476164
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 Woodsdale
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 eight communities that are also named Woodsdale.
Within Ohio, the name Woodsdale is unique.
Beyond Ohio, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, seven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
British Columbia
This Woodsdale lies 1,841 miles [2,962.8 km]<1> to the northwest of the Woodsdale that is located in Butler County.
Kansas
Stevens 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 Kansas community of Woodsdale [Stevens County].
Maryland
Harford County
This Woodsdale is located in Harford County and lies 435 miles [700.1 km]<1> to the east of the Woodsdale that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Woodsdale.
North Carolina
Cleveland County
This Woodsdale is located in Cleveland County and lies 327 miles [526.3 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Woodsdale that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cleveland County community of Woodsdale.
Person County
This Woodsdale is located in Person County and lies 362 miles [582.6 km] to the east southeast of the Woodsdale that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Person County community of Woodsdale.
Texas
Harris County
This Woodsdale is located in Harris County and lies 902 miles [1,451.6 km]<1> to the southwest of the Woodsdale that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Woodsdale.
Virginia
Washington County
This Woodsdale is located in Washington County and lies 229 miles [368.5 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Woodsdale that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Woodsdale.
West Virginia
Ohio County
This Woodsdale is located in Ohio County and lies 205 miles [329.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Woodsdale that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ohio County community of Woodsdale.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Woodsdale ...
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 Woodsdale to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Woodsdale and extending to:
Columbus, which is the State Capital of Ohio, lies 87 miles [140 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Woodsdale 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 399 miles [642.1 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 6,178 miles [9,942.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,903 miles [11,109.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,779 miles [7,691.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Woodsdale) 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Woodsdale 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 Woodsdale 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 Woodsdale. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.4343, Longitude: -84.4762
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.408 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.666 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.788 degrees.