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 Jordonia:
36.209222, -86.865278
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.
We found one communities that are also named Jordonia.
Within Tennessee, the name Jordonia is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, there is another community also named Jordonia in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
South Carolina
Oconee County
This Jordonia is located in Oconee County and lies 245 miles [394.3 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Jordonia that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oconee County community of Jordonia.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Jordonia ...
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 Jordonia to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Jordonia and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies just to the southeast (SE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 568 miles [914.1 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Jordonia to White House, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 33 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 23 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,425 miles [10,340 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,145 miles [11,498.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,020 miles [8,078.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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- Jordonia) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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.
<3>
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 Jordonia 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 Jordonia. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.2092, Longitude: -86.8653 In this case, the coordinates for Jordonia have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.85 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.861 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.714 degrees.