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 Oak Hill Estates:
36.047560, -86.791111
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 Oak Hill Estates
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 Davidson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found seven communities that are also named Oak Hill Estates.
Within Tennessee, the name Oak Hill Estates is unique.
Beyond Tennessee, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Oak Hill Estates is located in Hillsborough County and lies 621 miles [999.4 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Oak Hill Estates that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Oak Hill Estates.
Maryland
Charles County
This Oak Hill Estates is located in Charles County and lies 565 miles [909.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Oak Hill Estates that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charles County community of Oak Hill Estates.
Montgomery County
This Oak Hill Estates is located in Montgomery County and lies 577 miles [928.6 km] to the east northeast of the Oak Hill Estates that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Oak Hill Estates.
Worcester County
This Oak Hill Estates is located in Worcester County and lies 649 miles [1,044.5 km] to the east northeast of the Oak Hill Estates that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Worcester County community of Oak Hill Estates.
Virginia
Chesterfield County
This Oak Hill Estates is located in Chesterfield County and lies 519 miles [835.2 km]<1> to the east of the Oak Hill Estates that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chesterfield County community of Oak Hill Estates.
Halifax County
This Oak Hill Estates is located in Halifax County and lies 440 miles [708.1 km] to the east of the Oak Hill Estates that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Halifax County community of Oak Hill Estates.
Prince William County
This Oak Hill Estates is located in Prince William County and lies 545 miles [877.1 km] to the east northeast of the Oak Hill Estates that is located in Davidson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Prince William County community of Oak Hill Estates.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Oak Hill Estates ...
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.
Carpenters ‑ Historic (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Oak Hill Estates to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Oak Hill Estates and extending to:
Nashville, which is the State Capital of Tennessee, lies just to the north (N).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 569 miles [915.7 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Oak Hill Estates 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 6,430 miles [10,348.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,148 miles [11,503.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,024 miles [8,085.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Oak Hill Estates) 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 Oak Hill Estates 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 Oak Hill Estates. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.0476, Longitude: -86.7911 In this case, the coordinates for Oak Hill Estates have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.798 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.778 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.721 degrees.