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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 Country Club Hills:
38.857612, -77.293595
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.
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Communities Also Named Country Club Hills ...
We found eleven communities that are also named Country Club Hills.
There is one other community in Virginia that is also named Country Club Hills.
Beyond Virginia, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Virginia ...
Arlington County
This Country Club Hills is located in Arlington County and lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the east northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Arlington County community of Country Club Hills.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Tuscaloosa County
This Country Club Hills is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 694 miles [1,116.9 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of Country Club Hills.
Georgia
Bulloch County
This Country Club Hills is located in Bulloch County and lies 511 miles [822.4 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bulloch County community of Country Club Hills.
Richmond County
This Country Club Hills is located in Richmond County and lies 454 miles [730.6 km] to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richmond County community of Country Club Hills.
Illinois
Cook County
This Country Club Hills is located in Cook County and lies 580 miles [933.4 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Country Club Hills.
Missouri
Saint Louis County
This Country Club Hills is located in Saint Louis County and lies 698 miles [1,123.3 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Louis County community of Country Club Hills.
North Carolina
Craven County
This Country Club Hills is located in Craven County and lies 262 miles [421.6 km]<1> to the south.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Craven County community of Country Club Hills.
Onslow County
This Country Club Hills is located in Onslow County and lies 282 miles [453.8 km] to the south.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Onslow County community of Country Club Hills.
Rowan County
This Country Club Hills is located in Rowan County and lies 279 miles [449 km] to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rowan County community of Country Club Hills.
Wake County
This Country Club Hills is located in Wake County and lies 222 miles [357.3 km] to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wake County community of Country Club Hills.
Wilkes County
This Country Club Hills is located in Wilkes County and lies 283 miles [455.4 km] to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wilkes County community of Country Club Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Country Club Hills ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Country Club Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Country Club Hills and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 91 miles [146.5 km]<1> to the south (S). If you could drive a straight line from Country Club Hills to Richmond, with an average speed<2>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 6 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 14 miles [22.5 km] to the east (E). The buggy would take four to five hours and walking would take most of a day.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,910 miles [9,511.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,615 miles [10,645.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,492 miles [7,229.2 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 from Point A (ie- Country Club Hills) 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 Country Club Hills 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 Country Club Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.8576, Longitude: -77.2936 In this case, the coordinates for Country Club Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.043 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.608 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.837 degrees.