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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 West View:
37.307635, -80.003373
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 West View
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We found fourteen communities that are also named West View.
There are two communities within Virginia that are also named West View.
Beyond Virginia, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Virginia ...
Augusta County
This West View is located in Augusta County and lies 74 miles [119.1 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Augusta County community of West View.
Goochland County
This West View is located in Goochland County and lies 111 miles [178.6 km]<1> to the east northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Goochland County community of West View.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Hillsborough County
This West View is located in Hillsborough County and lies 663 miles [1,067 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of West View.
Maryland
Caroline County
This West View is located in Caroline County and lies 243 miles [391.1 km]<1> to the east northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caroline County community of West View.
Mississippi
Hinds County
This West View is located in Hinds County and lies 681 miles [1,096 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hinds County community of West View.
New Jersey
Bergen County
This West View is located in Bergen County and lies 403 miles [648.6 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bergen County community of West View.
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
This West View is located in Cuyahoga County and lies 297 miles [478 km]<1> to the north northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cuyahoga County community of West View.
Trumbull County
This West View is located in Trumbull County and lies 273 miles [439.4 km] to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Trumbull County community of West View.
Pennsylvania
Allegheny County
This West View is located in Allegheny County and lies 221 miles [355.7 km]<1> to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allegheny County community of West View.
South Carolina
Abbeville County
This West View is located in Abbeville County and lies 244 miles [392.7 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Abbeville County community of West View.
Spartanburg County
This West View is located in Spartanburg County and lies 198 miles [318.7 km] to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Spartanburg County community of West View.
Tennessee
Hamilton County
This West View is located in Hamilton County and lies 325 miles [523 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of West View.
Knox County
This West View is located in Knox County and lies 238 miles [383 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Knox County community of West View.
Vermont
Chittenden County
This West View is located in Chittenden County and lies 618 miles [994.6 km]<1> to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chittenden County community of West View.
Curious and Interesting Names Near West View ...
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.
Captains Grove (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
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 West View to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in West View and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 141 miles [226.9 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from West View to Richmond, with an average speed<2>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<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,092 miles [9,804.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,797 miles [10,938.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,674 miles [7,522.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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 from Point A (ie- West View) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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.
<3>
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 West View 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 West View. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.3076, Longitude: -80.0034 In this case, the coordinates for West View have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.708 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.27 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.516 degrees.