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 Lakeview Park:
36.889592, -76.150491
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 six communities that share the name Lakeview Park.
Within Virginia, the name Lakeview Park is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, five are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jefferson County
This Lakeview Park is located in Jefferson County and lies 646 miles [1,039.6 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Lakeview Park.
Louisiana
Ouachita Parish
This Lakeview Park is located in Ouachita Parish and lies 947 miles [1,524 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ouachita Parish community of Lakeview Park.
North Carolina
Buncombe 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 North Carolina community of Lakeview Park [Buncombe County].
Ontario
This Lakeview Park lies 584 miles [939.9 km]<1> to the north.
Utah
Davis County
This Lakeview Park is located in Davis County and lies 1,926 miles [3,099.6 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davis County community of Lakeview Park.
Washington
Grant County
This Lakeview Park is located in Grant County and lies 2,301 miles [3,703.1 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grant County community of Lakeview Park.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Lakeview 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.
Arrowhead (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Arrowhead have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 Lakeview Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Lakeview Park and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 83 miles [133.6 km]<1> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Lakeview 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 5 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 146 miles [235 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,944 miles [9,565.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,638 miles [10,682.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,519 miles [7,272.6 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- Lakeview Park) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lakeview Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.8896, Longitude: -76.1505 In this case, the coordinates for Lakeview 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Lakeview 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 Lakeview 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 307.495 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.682 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.117 degrees.