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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 Lakeside Park:
36.729039, -76.598563
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We found fourteen communities that share the name Lakeside Park.
Within Virginia, the name Lakeside Park is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Los Angeles County
This Lakeside Park is located in Los Angeles County and lies 2,351 miles [3,783.6 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Los Angeles County community of Lakeside Park.
Georgia
Chatham County
This Lakeside Park is located in Chatham County and lies 414 miles [666.3 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chatham County community of Lakeside Park.
Indiana
Kosciusko County
This Lakeside Park is located in Kosciusko County and lies 586 miles [943.1 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kosciusko County community of Lakeside Park.
LaGrange County
This Lakeside Park is located in LaGrange County and lies 569 miles [915.7 km] to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the LaGrange County community of Lakeside Park.
Kentucky
Kenton County
This Lakeside Park is located in Kenton County and lies 462 miles [743.5 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kenton County community of Lakeside Park.
New Jersey
Mercer County
This Lakeside Park is located in Mercer County and lies 260 miles [418.4 km]<1> to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mercer County community of Lakeside Park.
New York
Albany County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Lakeside Park [Albany County].
Chautauqua County
This Lakeside Park is located in Chautauqua County and lies 410 miles [659.8 km]<1> to the north northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chautauqua County community of Lakeside Park.
Orleans County
This Lakeside Park is located in Orleans County and lies 467 miles [751.6 km] to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orleans County community of Lakeside Park.
Steuben County
This Lakeside Park is located in Steuben County and lies 400 miles [643.7 km] to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Steuben County community of Lakeside Park.
Tennessee
Hamilton County
This Lakeside Park is located in Hamilton County and lies 490 miles [788.6 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Lakeside Park.
Sumner County
This Lakeside Park is located in Sumner County and lies 556 miles [894.8 km] to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sumner County community of Lakeside Park.
Texas
Harris County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lakeside Park [Harris County].
Utah
Weber County
This Lakeside Park is located in Weber County and lies 1,914 miles [3,080.3 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of Lakeside Park.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Lakeside Park ...
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.
Boston (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Boston have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 Lakeside Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Lakeside Park 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 Lakeside Park to Richmond, with an average speed<4>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 151 miles [243 km] to the north (N). Driving would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,970 miles [9,607.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,664 miles [10,724.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,546 miles [7,316.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
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- Lakeside Park) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lakeside Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.7290, Longitude: -76.5986 In this case, the coordinates for Lakeside Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>
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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Lakeside Park 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.
<3>
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.
<4>
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.
<5>
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 Lakeside Park to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.757 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.957 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.351 degrees.