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 Spring Garden:
36.610662, -82.182633
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 nineteen communities that share the name Spring Garden.
There are two communities within Virginia that are also named Spring Garden.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, eighteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In Virginia ...
Pittsylvania County
This Spring Garden is located in Pittsylvania County and lies 159 miles [255.9 km]<1> to the east.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pittsylvania County community of Spring Garden.
Salem City
This Spring Garden is located in Salem City and lies 128 miles [206 km]<1> to the east northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salem City community of Spring Garden.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Cherokee County
This Spring Garden is located in Cherokee County and lies 263 miles [423.3 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cherokee County community of Spring Garden.
Jefferson County
This Spring Garden is located in Jefferson County and lies 330 miles [531.1 km] to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Spring Garden.
California
Plumas County
This Spring Garden is located in Plumas County and lies 2,089 miles [3,361.9 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Plumas County community of Spring Garden.
Florida
Volusia 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 Florida community of Spring Garden [Volusia County].
Illinois
Jefferson County
This Spring Garden is located in Jefferson County and lies 381 miles [613.2 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Spring Garden.
Missouri
Miller County
This Spring Garden is located in Miller County and lies 573 miles [922.2 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Miller County community of Spring Garden.
North Carolina
Craven County
This Spring Garden is located in Craven County and lies 297 miles [478 km]<1> to the east southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Craven County community of Spring Garden.
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 Spring Garden.
Pennsylvania
Allegheny County
This Spring Garden is located in Allegheny County and lies 291 miles [468.3 km]<1> to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allegheny County community of Spring Garden.
Bucks 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 Pennsylvania community of Spring Garden [Bucks County].
Lancaster 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 Pennsylvania community of Spring Garden [Lancaster County].
Philadelphia County
This Spring Garden is located in Philadelphia County and lies 444 miles [714.5 km] to the east northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Philadelphia County community of Spring Garden.
Schuylkill 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 Pennsylvania community of Spring Garden [Schuylkill County].
Union County
This Spring Garden is located in Union County and lies 419 miles [674.3 km] to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Spring Garden.
Westmoreland 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 Pennsylvania community of Spring Garden [Westmoreland County].
York 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 Pennsylvania community of Spring Garden [York County].
West Virginia
Roane 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 West Virginia community of Spring Garden [Roane County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Spring Garden ...
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.
Cedar Valley (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 Spring Garden to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Spring Garden and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 269 miles [432.9 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Spring Garden to Richmond, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 16 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 11 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 322 miles [518.2 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 19 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,215 miles [10,002.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,923 miles [11,141.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,799 miles [7,723.2 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Spring Garden) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Spring Garden. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.6107, Longitude: -82.1826 In this case, the coordinates for Spring Garden 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 Spring Garden 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 Spring Garden 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 311.009 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.656 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.633 degrees.