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website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
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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 Edgefield:
36.889870, -76.391056
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 eleven communities that share the name Edgefield.
Within Virginia, the name Edgefield is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Barbour County
This Edgefield is located in Barbour County and lies 624 miles [1,004.2 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Barbour County community of Edgefield.
Jackson County
This Edgefield is located in Jackson County and lies 544 miles [875.5 km] to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Edgefield.
Mobile County
This Edgefield is located in Mobile County and lies 801 miles [1,289.1 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mobile County community of Edgefield.
Louisiana
Red River Parish
This Edgefield is located in Red River Parish and lies 1,019 miles [1,639.9 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Red River Parish community of Edgefield.
Mississippi
Attala County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Edgefield [Attala County].
Ohio
Fayette County
This Edgefield is located in Fayette County and lies 435 miles [700.1 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Edgefield.
Stark County
This Edgefield is located in Stark County and lies 382 miles [614.8 km] to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stark County community of Edgefield.
South Carolina
Edgefield County
This Edgefield is located in Edgefield County and lies 378 miles [608.3 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Edgefield County community of Edgefield.
Tennessee
Davidson County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Edgefield [Davidson County].
Smith County
This Edgefield is located in Smith County and lies 528 miles [849.7 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Smith County community of Edgefield.
Sullivan County
This Edgefield is located in Sullivan County and lies 318 miles [511.8 km] to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sullivan County community of Edgefield.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Edgefield ...
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.
Churchland (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Churchland have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Edgefield to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Edgefield and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 72 miles [115.9 km]<1> to the northwest (NW). If you could drive a straight line from Edgefield to Richmond, with an average speed<5>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 4 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 143 miles [230.1 km] to the north northwest (NNW). Driving would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,954 miles [9,582 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,649 miles [10,700.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,530 miles [7,290.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
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- Edgefield) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Edgefield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.8899, Longitude: -76.3911 In this case, the coordinates for Edgefield have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Edgefield, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Edgefield 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 . 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.
<4>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>
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.
<6>
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 Edgefield to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.631 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.837 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.211 degrees.