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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 Sherwood Park:
37.057924, -76.348833
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.
Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Sherwood Park
Waymarking ...
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We found sixteen communities that are also named Sherwood Park.
Within Virginia, the name Sherwood Park is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of sixteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Madison County
This Sherwood Park is located in Madison County and lies 598 miles [962.4 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Sherwood Park.
Alberta
This Sherwood Park lies 2,090 miles [3,363.5 km]<1> to the northwest.
Delaware
New Castle County
This Sherwood Park is located in New Castle County and lies 188 miles [302.6 km]<1> to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of Sherwood Park.
Florida
Palm Beach County
This Sherwood Park is located in Palm Beach County and lies 765 miles [1,231.1 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Palm Beach County community of Sherwood Park.
Georgia
Clayton County
This Sherwood Park is located in Clayton County and lies 513 miles [825.6 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clayton County community of Sherwood Park.
Cobb County
This Sherwood Park is located in Cobb County and lies 518 miles [833.6 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cobb County community of Sherwood Park.
Michigan
Kalamazoo 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 Michigan community of Sherwood Park [Kalamazoo County].
New Brunswick
This Sherwood Park lies 788 miles [1,268.2 km]<1> to the northeast.
New York
Rensselaer County
This Sherwood Park is located in Rensselaer County and lies 407 miles [655 km]<1> to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rensselaer County community of Sherwood Park.
North Carolina
Cumberland County
This Sherwood Park is located in Cumberland County and lies 202 miles [325.1 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Sherwood Park.
Moore County
This Sherwood Park is located in Moore County and lies 218 miles [350.8 km] to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Moore County community of Sherwood Park.
Nova Scotia
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 Nova Scotia community of Sherwood Park.
Ohio
Clark County
This Sherwood Park is located in Clark County and lies 446 miles [717.8 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of Sherwood Park.
Pennsylvania
Cumberland County
This Sherwood Park is located in Cumberland County and lies 225 miles [362.1 km]<1> to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Sherwood Park.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Sherwood Park is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,912 miles [3,077.1 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Sherwood Park.
Weber County
This Sherwood Park is located in Weber County and lies 1,917 miles [3,085.1 km] to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of Sherwood Park.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sherwood 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.
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 Sherwood Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sherwood Park and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 68 miles [109.4 km]<1> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could walk a straight line from Sherwood Park to Richmond, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take three full days to make the trip. 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 132 miles [212.4 km] to the north northwest (NNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 8 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,946 miles [9,569.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
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).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,521 miles [7,275.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sherwood Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Sherwood 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>
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.
<4>
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 Sherwood Park to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sherwood Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.0579, Longitude: -76.3488 In this case, the coordinates for Sherwood Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.598 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.825 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.132 degrees.