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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 Dogwood Acres:
36.297051, -82.356806
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 Dogwood Acres
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 Washington County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found sixteen communities that are also named Dogwood Acres.
Within Tennessee, the name Dogwood Acres is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of sixteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Pike County
This Dogwood Acres is located in Pike County and lies 381 miles [613.2 km]<1> to the southwest of the Dogwood Acres that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pike County community of Dogwood Acres.
Delaware
Sussex County
This Dogwood Acres is located in Sussex County and lies 402 miles [647 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Dogwood Acres that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sussex County community of Dogwood Acres.
Georgia
Clayton County
This Dogwood Acres is located in Clayton County and lies 217 miles [349.2 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Dogwood Acres that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clayton County community of Dogwood Acres.
Douglas County
This Dogwood Acres is located in Douglas County and lies 221 miles [355.7 km] to the southwest of the Dogwood Acres that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Douglas County community of Dogwood Acres.
Louisiana
Bossier Parish
This Dogwood Acres is located in Bossier Parish and lies 689 miles [1,108.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Dogwood Acres that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bossier Parish community of Dogwood Acres.
North Carolina
Alamance County
This Dogwood Acres is located in Alamance County and lies 162 miles [260.7 km]<1> to the east of the Dogwood Acres that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Alamance County community of Dogwood Acres.
Cumberland County
This Dogwood Acres is located in Cumberland County and lies 214 miles [344.4 km] to the east southeast of the Dogwood Acres that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Dogwood Acres.
Durham 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 North Carolina community of Dogwood Acres [Durham County].
Orange County
This Dogwood Acres is located in Orange County and lies 185 miles [297.7 km] to the east of the Dogwood Acres that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orange County community of Dogwood Acres.
Randolph County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Dogwood Acres [Randolph County].
Rowan County
This Dogwood Acres is located in Rowan County and lies 115 miles [185.1 km] to the east southeast of the Dogwood Acres that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rowan County community of Dogwood Acres.
Union County
This Dogwood Acres is located in Union County and lies 132 miles [212.4 km] to the southeast of the Dogwood Acres that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Dogwood Acres.
South Carolina
Darlington County
This Dogwood Acres is located in Darlington County and lies 185 miles [297.7 km]<1> to the southeast of the Dogwood Acres that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Darlington County community of Dogwood Acres.
Greenville County
This Dogwood Acres is located in Greenville County and lies 92 miles [148.1 km] to the south of the Dogwood Acres that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenville County community of Dogwood Acres.
Texas
Harris County
This Dogwood Acres is located in Harris County and lies 854 miles [1,374.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Dogwood Acres that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Dogwood Acres.
Virginia
Goochland County
This Dogwood Acres is located in Goochland County and lies 256 miles [412 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Dogwood Acres that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Goochland County community of Dogwood Acres.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Dogwood Acres ...
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 Dogwood Acres to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Dogwood Acres and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies 246 miles [395.9 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Dogwood Acres to Nashville, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 14 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 10 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 341 miles [548.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 20 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,236 miles [10,035.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,944 miles [11,175.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,820 miles [7,757 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<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- Dogwood Acres) 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 Dogwood Acres 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 Dogwood Acres 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 Dogwood Acres. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.2971, Longitude: -82.3568 In this case, the coordinates for Dogwood Acres have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.112 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.729 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.796 degrees.