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 Wood Village:
45.536107, -122.420490
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 Wood Village
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 Multnomah County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Wood Village.
Within Oregon, the name Wood Village is unique.
Beyond Oregon, there is another community also named Wood Village in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Tuscaloosa County
This Wood Village is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 2,026 miles [3,260.5 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Wood Village that is located in Multnomah County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of Wood Village.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Wood Village ...
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 city such as Wood Village to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Wood Village and extending to:
Portland, which is the Seat of Multnomah County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the west. If you could walk a straight line from Wood Village to Portland, with an average speed<3> 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.
Salem, which is the State Capital of Oregon, lies 50 miles [80.5 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take most of two days and walking would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,333 miles [3,754.6 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 92 days and walking would take 133 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,910 miles [11,120.6 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,672 miles [12,346.9 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,783 miles [9,306.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>'
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Wood Village) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
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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.
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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 Wood Village 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 Wood Village. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.5361, Longitude: -122.4205 In this case, the coordinates for Wood Village have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 340.838 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 342.284 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.954 degrees.