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website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
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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 Shorewood:
36.833482, -76.410223
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 fourteen communities that share the name Shorewood.
Within Virginia, the name Shorewood is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Broward County
This Shorewood is located in Broward County and lies 758 miles [1,219.9 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Broward County community of Shorewood.
Illinois
DuPage County
This Shorewood is located in DuPage County and lies 713 miles [1,147.5 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the DuPage County community of Shorewood.
Kankakee 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 Illinois community of Shorewood [Kankakee County].
Will County
This Shorewood is located in Will County and lies 709 miles [1,141 km] to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Will County community of Shorewood.
Maryland
Kent County
This Shorewood is located in Kent County and lies 176 miles [283.2 km]<1> to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kent County community of Shorewood.
Michigan
Allegan County
This Shorewood is located in Allegan County and lies 657 miles [1,057.3 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allegan County community of Shorewood.
Minnesota
Hennepin County
This Shorewood is located in Hennepin County and lies 1,052 miles [1,693 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hennepin County community of Shorewood.
New York
Schuyler County
This Shorewood is located in Schuyler County and lies 388 miles [624.4 km]<1> to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Schuyler County community of Shorewood.
Suffolk 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 Shorewood [Suffolk County].
Oregon
Coos County
This Shorewood is located in Coos County and lies 2,529 miles [4,070 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Coos County community of Shorewood.
Tennessee
Roane County
This Shorewood is located in Roane County and lies 464 miles [746.7 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roane County community of Shorewood.
Texas
Harris County
This Shorewood is located in Harris County and lies 1,173 miles [1,887.8 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Shorewood.
Washington
King County
This Shorewood is located in King County and lies 2,425 miles [3,902.7 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the King County community of Shorewood.
Wisconsin
Milwaukee County
This Shorewood is located in Milwaukee County and lies 744 miles [1,197.4 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Milwaukee County community of Shorewood.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Shorewood ...
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 (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bruce 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 Shorewood to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Shorewood and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 74 miles [119.1 km]<1> to the northwest (NW). If you could drive a straight line from Shorewood 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 5,958 miles [9,588.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,652 miles [10,705.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,533 miles [7,295.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Shorewood) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Shorewood. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.8335, Longitude: -76.4102 In this case, the coordinates for Shorewood 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 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 Shorewood 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 Shorewood 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 307.645 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.845 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.239 degrees.