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36.908481, -76.244106
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We found 63 communities that share the name Oakwood.
There are four communities within Virginia that are also named Oakwood.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 59 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 59 communities, 62 are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
Communities Located In Virginia ...
Arlington County
This Oakwood is located in Arlington County and lies 146 miles [235 km]<1> to the north northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Arlington County community of Oakwood.
Buchanan County
This Oakwood is located in Buchanan County and lies 318 miles [511.8 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Buchanan County community of Oakwood.
Fairfax County
This Oakwood is located in Fairfax County and lies 133 miles [214 km]<1> to the north northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fairfax County community of Oakwood.
Rockingham County
This Oakwood is located in Rockingham County and lies 174 miles [280 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockingham County community of Oakwood.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jefferson County
This Oakwood is located in Jefferson County and lies 645 miles [1,038 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Oakwood.
Madison County
This Oakwood is located in Madison County and lies 601 miles [967.2 km] to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Oakwood.
Arkansas
Garland 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 Arkansas community of Oakwood [Garland County].
Lee County
This Oakwood is located in Lee County and lies 825 miles [1,327.7 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lee County community of Oakwood.
California
Los Angeles 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 California community of Oakwood [Los Angeles County].
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Oakwood is located in Hillsborough County and lies 712 miles [1,145.9 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Oakwood.
Georgia
Hall County
This Oakwood is located in Hall County and lies 467 miles [751.6 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hall County community of Oakwood.
Newton County
This Oakwood is located in Newton County and lies 493 miles [793.4 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Newton County community of Oakwood.
Illinois
DuPage 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 Illinois community of Oakwood [DuPage County].
Peoria County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Oakwood [Peoria County].
Vermilion County
This Oakwood is located in Vermilion County and lies 660 miles [1,062.2 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Vermilion County community of Oakwood.
Indiana
LaPorte County
This Oakwood is located in LaPorte County and lies 651 miles [1,047.7 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the LaPorte County community of Oakwood.
Steuben County
This Oakwood is located in Steuben County and lies 563 miles [906.1 km] to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Steuben County community of Oakwood.
Iowa
Floyd County
This Oakwood is located in Floyd County and lies 968 miles [1,557.8 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Floyd County community of Oakwood.
Polk 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 Iowa community of Oakwood [Polk County].
Kansas
Linn 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 Kansas community of Oakwood [Linn County].
Louisiana
Jefferson Parish
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 Louisiana community of Oakwood [Jefferson Parish].
Saint Tammany Parish
This Oakwood is located in Saint Tammany Parish and lies 903 miles [1,453.2 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Tammany Parish community of Oakwood.
Maine
Waldo County
This Oakwood is located in Waldo County and lies 644 miles [1,036.4 km]<1> to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Waldo County community of Oakwood.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Oakwood is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 139 miles [223.7 km]<1> to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Oakwood.
Cecil County
This Oakwood is located in Cecil County and lies 192 miles [309 km] to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cecil County community of Oakwood.
Charles County
This Oakwood is located in Charles County and lies 124 miles [199.6 km] to the north northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charles County community of Oakwood.
Harford County
This Oakwood is located in Harford County and lies 181 miles [291.3 km] to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Oakwood.
Michigan
Kalamazoo County
This Oakwood is located in Kalamazoo County and lies 620 miles [997.8 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kalamazoo County community of Oakwood.
Macomb County
This community is historic<2> and although located in Macomb County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Macomb County community of Oakwood.
Oakland County
This Oakwood is located in Oakland County and lies 556 miles [894.8 km] to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oakland County community of Oakwood.
Saint Joseph County
This Oakwood is located in Saint Joseph County and lies 600 miles [965.6 km] to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Joseph County community of Oakwood.
Wayne 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 Michigan community of Oakwood [Wayne County].
Missouri
Clay County
This Oakwood is located in Clay County and lies 1,007 miles [1,620.6 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clay County community of Oakwood.
Marion County
This Oakwood is located in Marion County and lies 842 miles [1,355.1 km] to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Oakwood.
New Jersey
Ocean County
This Oakwood is located in Ocean County and lies 247 miles [397.5 km]<1> to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ocean County community of Oakwood.
New York
Cayuga County
This Oakwood is located in Cayuga County and lies 413 miles [664.7 km]<1> to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cayuga County community of Oakwood.
Richmond County
This Oakwood is located in Richmond County and lies 277 miles [445.8 km] to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richmond County community of Oakwood.
North Carolina
Guilford County
This Oakwood is located in Guilford County and lies 208 miles [334.7 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Guilford County community of Oakwood.
Onslow County
This Oakwood is located in Onslow County and lies 159 miles [255.9 km] to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Onslow County community of Oakwood.
North Dakota
Walsh County
This Oakwood is located in Walsh County and lies 1,324 miles [2,130.8 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Walsh County community of Oakwood.
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
This Oakwood is located in Cuyahoga County and lies 417 miles [671.1 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cuyahoga County community of Oakwood.
Guernsey County
This Oakwood is located in Guernsey County and lies 357 miles [574.5 km] to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Guernsey County community of Oakwood.
Montgomery County
This Oakwood is located in Montgomery County and lies 470 miles [756.4 km] to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Oakwood.
Paulding County
This Oakwood is located in Paulding County and lies 523 miles [841.7 km] to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Paulding County community of Oakwood.
Oklahoma
Dewey County
This Oakwood is located in Dewey County and lies 1,246 miles [2,005.2 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dewey County community of Oakwood.
Ontario
This Oakwood lies 530 miles [853 km]<1> to the north northwest.
Pennsylvania
Beaver 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 Pennsylvania community of Oakwood [Beaver County].
Lawrence County
This Oakwood is located in Lawrence County and lies 359 miles [577.8 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lawrence County community of Oakwood.
South Carolina
Aiken County
This Oakwood is located in Aiken County and lies 381 miles [613.2 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Aiken County community of Oakwood.
Lexington County
This Oakwood is located in Lexington County and lies 342 miles [550.4 km] to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lexington County community of Oakwood.
Spartanburg County
This Oakwood is located in Spartanburg County and lies 359 miles [577.8 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Spartanburg County community of Oakwood.
York County
This Oakwood is located in York County and lies 296 miles [476.4 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Oakwood.
South Dakota
Brookings 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 Dakota community of Oakwood [Brookings County].
Tennessee
Bradley County
This Oakwood is located in Bradley County and lies 491 miles [790.2 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bradley County community of Oakwood.
Hamblen County
This Oakwood is located in Hamblen County and lies 397 miles [638.9 km] to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamblen County community of Oakwood.
Knox 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 Oakwood [Knox County].
Montgomery County
This Oakwood is located in Montgomery County and lies 627 miles [1,009.1 km] to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Oakwood.
Rutherford County
This Oakwood is located in Rutherford County and lies 570 miles [917.3 km] to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Oakwood.
Texas
Leon County
This Oakwood is located in Leon County and lies 1,175 miles [1,891 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Leon County community of Oakwood.
West Virginia
Fayette 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 West Virginia community of Oakwood [Fayette County].
Kanawha County
This Oakwood is located in Kanawha County and lies 312 miles [502.1 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kanawha County community of Oakwood.
Wisconsin
Milwaukee County
This Oakwood is located in Milwaukee County and lies 741 miles [1,192.5 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Milwaukee County community of Oakwood.
Winnebago County
This Oakwood is located in Winnebago County and lies 813 miles [1,308.4 km] to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Winnebago County community of Oakwood.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Oakwood ...
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.
Cherokee Heights (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cherokee Heights have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Oakwood to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Oakwood and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 78 miles [125.5 km]<1> to the northwest (NW). If you could drive a straight line from Oakwood 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 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 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 5,947 miles [9,570.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,641 miles [10,687.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,523 miles [7,279.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
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- Oakwood) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oakwood. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.9085, Longitude: -76.2441 In this case, the coordinates for Oakwood 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 Oakwood, 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 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 Oakwood 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 Oakwood 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 307.547 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.744 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.146 degrees.