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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 Spring Garden:
37.306802, -80.022540
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 ...
Bristol City
This Spring Garden is located in Bristol City and lies 128 miles [206 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bristol City community of Spring Garden.
Pittsylvania County
This Spring Garden is located in Pittsylvania County and lies 53 miles [85.3 km]<1> to the southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pittsylvania County community of Spring Garden.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Cherokee County
This Spring Garden is located in Cherokee County and lies 386 miles [621.2 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 456 miles [733.9 km] to the west 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 2,187 miles [3,519.6 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 485 miles [780.5 km]<1> to the west.
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 679 miles [1,092.7 km]<1> to the west.
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 215 miles [346 km]<1> to the 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 218 miles [350.8 km]<1> to the north.
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 319 miles [513.4 km] to the 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 310 miles [498.9 km] to the north 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.
Covehaven Court (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Covehaven Court 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 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 142 miles [228.5 km]<1> to the east (E). 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 less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 195 miles [313.8 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 11 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,093 miles [9,805.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,798 miles [10,940.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,675 miles [7,523.7 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: 37.3068, Longitude: -80.0225 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 309.719 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.283 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.524 degrees.