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 Huntersville:
36.874315, -76.431335
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 twelve communities that share the name Huntersville.
There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Huntersville.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Located In Virginia ...
Norfolk City
This Huntersville is located in Norfolk City and lies 8 miles [12.9 km]<1> to the east.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Norfolk City community of Huntersville.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Indiana
Franklin County
This Huntersville is located in Franklin County and lies 506 miles [814.3 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Huntersville.
Kentucky
Clinton County
This Huntersville is located in Clinton County and lies 481 miles [774.1 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clinton County community of Huntersville.
Maryland
Saint Mary's County
This Huntersville is located in Saint Mary's County and lies 111 miles [178.6 km]<1> to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Mary's County community of Huntersville.
Minnesota
Wadena County
This Huntersville is located in Wadena County and lies 1,165 miles [1,874.9 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wadena County community of Huntersville.
New York
Westchester 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 New York community of Huntersville [Westchester County].
North Carolina
Mecklenburg County
This Huntersville is located in Mecklenburg County and lies 267 miles [429.7 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mecklenburg County community of Huntersville.
Ohio
Hardin County
This Huntersville is located in Hardin County and lies 475 miles [764.4 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hardin County community of Huntersville.
Pennsylvania
Lycoming County
This Huntersville is located in Lycoming County and lies 307 miles [494.1 km]<1> to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lycoming County community of Huntersville.
South Carolina
Greenville 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 South Carolina community of Huntersville [Greenville County].
Tennessee
Madison County
This Huntersville is located in Madison County and lies 703 miles [1,131.4 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Huntersville.
West Virginia
Pocahontas County
This Huntersville is located in Pocahontas County and lies 216 miles [347.6 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pocahontas County community of Huntersville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Huntersville ...
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.
Bruce (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bruce have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Huntersville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Huntersville and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 71 miles [114.3 km]<1> to the northwest (NW). If you could drive a straight line from Huntersville 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 about three full 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 5,957 miles [9,586.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,651 miles [10,703.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,532 miles [7,293.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Huntersville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Huntersville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.8743, Longitude: -76.4313 In this case, the coordinates for Huntersville 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 Huntersville, 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 Huntersville 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 Huntersville 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 307.655 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.862 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.232 degrees.