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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Stony Creek, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Stony Creek and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • 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 Stony Creek:
    • 36.948019, -77.400087
    • 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 Stony Creek
  • Bird Watching ...
    • We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
    • The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Sussex County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Sussex County
    • Since Stony Creek is near Prince George County and also Dinwiddie County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Prince George County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Dinwiddie County
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Stony Creek

Communities Also Named Stony Creek ...

We found eleven communities that are also named Stony Creek.

Within Virginia, the name Stony Creek is unique.

Beyond Virginia, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Connecticut
      • New Haven County
      • This Stony Creek is located in New Haven County and lies 388 miles [624.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Stony Creek that is located in Sussex County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Haven County community of Stony Creek.
    • Indiana
      • LaGrange County
      • This Stony Creek is located in LaGrange County and lies 542 miles [872.3 km]<1> to the northwest of the Stony Creek that is located in Sussex County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the LaGrange County community of Stony Creek.
    • Michigan
      • Monroe County
      • This Stony Creek is located in Monroe County and lies 468 miles [753.2 km]<1> to the northwest of the Stony Creek that is located in Sussex County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monroe County community of Stony Creek.
      • Oakland County
      • This Stony Creek is located in Oakland County and lies 499 miles [803.1 km] to the northwest of the Stony Creek that is located in Sussex County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oakland County community of Stony Creek.
      • Washtenaw County
      • This Stony Creek is located in Washtenaw County and lies 489 miles [787 km] to the northwest of the Stony Creek that is located in Sussex County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washtenaw County community of Stony Creek.
    • New York
      • Warren County
      • This Stony Creek is located in Warren County and lies 483 miles [777.3 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Stony Creek that is located in Sussex County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Stony Creek.
    • North Carolina
      • Caswell County
      • This Stony Creek is located in Caswell County and lies 121 miles [194.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Stony Creek that is located in Sussex County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caswell County community of Stony Creek.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Carbon 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 Stony Creek [Carbon County].
      • Schuylkill County
      • This Stony Creek is located in Schuylkill County and lies 261 miles [420 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Stony Creek that is located in Sussex County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Schuylkill County community of Stony Creek.
      • Somerset 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 Stony Creek [Somerset County].
    • Tennessee
      • Carter 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 Tennessee community of Stony Creek [Carter County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Stony Creek ...

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.

  • Booker
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Booker is located in Sussex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Booker
  • Carson
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Carson is located in Dinwiddie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carson
  • Church ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Church is located in Sussex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Church
  • Derby ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Derby is located in Prince George County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derby
  • Fields Crossroads
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Fields Crossroads is located in Greensville County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fields Crossroads
  • Gray
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Gray is located in Sussex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray
  • Henry
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Henry is located in Sussex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henry
  • Homeville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Homeville is located in Sussex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homeville
  • Lambs
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Lambs is located in Sussex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lambs
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Lees Mill
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Lees Mill is located in Prince George County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lees Mill
    • Little Mill
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Little Mill is located in Sussex County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Mill
    • Reams
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Reams is located in Dinwiddie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reams
    • Rivers Edge
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Rivers Edge is located in Greensville County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rivers Edge
    • Stony Springs
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Stony Springs is located in Dinwiddie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Springs
    • Walnut Grove
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Walnut Grove is located in Greensville County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove

How Far From Stony Creek to ...

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 town such as Stony Creek to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Stony Creek and extending to:

  • Sussex, which is the Seat of Sussex County, lies just to the East Southeast.
  • Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 41 miles [66 km]<1> to the north (N). If you could walk a straight line from Stony Creek to Richmond, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take about three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 136 miles [218.9 km] to the north (N). 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 5,996 miles [9,649.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,693 miles [10,771.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,573 miles [7,359.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 from Point A (ie- Stony Creek) 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 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 Stony Creek 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 county. 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 Stony Creek 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 Stony Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.9480, Longitude: -77.4001       In this case, the coordinates for Stony Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.205 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.50 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.587 degrees.