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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 Woodbridge:
37.280412, -80.086707
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We found 21 communities that share the name Woodbridge.
There is one other community in Virginia which is also named Woodbridge.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, twenty are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In Virginia ...
Prince William County
This Woodbridge is located in Prince William County and lies 181 miles [291.3 km]<1> to the east northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Prince William County community of Woodbridge.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
San Joaquin County
This Woodbridge is located in San Joaquin County and lies 2,233 miles [3,593.7 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Joaquin County community of Woodbridge.
Connecticut
New Haven County
This Woodbridge is located in New Haven County and lies 470 miles [756.4 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Haven County community of Woodbridge.
Florida
Orange 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 Woodbridge [Orange County].
Georgia
Columbia County
This Woodbridge is located in Columbia County and lies 282 miles [453.8 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Woodbridge.
Dougherty County
This Woodbridge is located in Dougherty County and lies 456 miles [733.9 km] to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dougherty County community of Woodbridge.
Hall County
This Woodbridge is located in Hall County and lies 304 miles [489.2 km] to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hall County community of Woodbridge.
Louisiana
Tangipahoa Parish
This Woodbridge is located in Tangipahoa Parish and lies 755 miles [1,215.1 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tangipahoa Parish community of Woodbridge.
Maryland
Carroll County
This Woodbridge is located in Carroll County and lies 222 miles [357.3 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Woodbridge.
New Jersey
Middlesex County
This Woodbridge is located in Middlesex County and lies 385 miles [619.6 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Middlesex County community of Woodbridge.
North Carolina
Cleveland County
This Woodbridge is located in Cleveland County and lies 156 miles [251.1 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cleveland County community of Woodbridge.
Cumberland County
This Woodbridge is located in Cumberland County and lies 161 miles [259.1 km] to the south southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Woodbridge.
Forsyth County
This Woodbridge is located in Forsyth County and lies 81 miles [130.4 km] to the south.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Forsyth County community of Woodbridge.
Lee County
This Woodbridge is located in Lee County and lies 138 miles [222.1 km] to the south southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lee County community of Woodbridge.
Mecklenburg County
This Woodbridge is located in Mecklenburg County and lies 152 miles [244.6 km] to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mecklenburg County community of Woodbridge.
North Dakota
Cavalier 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 North Dakota community of Woodbridge [Cavalier County].
Ontario
This Woodbridge lies 449 miles [722.6 km]<1> to the north.
South Carolina
Anderson County
This Woodbridge is located in Anderson County and lies 237 miles [381.4 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Woodbridge.
Berkeley County
This Woodbridge is located in Berkeley County and lies 293 miles [471.5 km] to the south.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Berkeley County community of Woodbridge.
Darlington County
This Woodbridge is located in Darlington County and lies 199 miles [320.3 km] to the south.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Darlington County community of Woodbridge.
York County
This Woodbridge is located in York County and lies 169 miles [272 km] to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Woodbridge.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Woodbridge ...
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.
Bear Rock (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bear Rock have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Woodbridge to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Woodbridge and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 146 miles [235 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Woodbridge 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 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 199 miles [320.3 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 12 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,097 miles [9,812.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,802 miles [10,946.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,679 miles [7,530.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Woodbridge) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Woodbridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2804, Longitude: -80.0867 In this case, the coordinates for Woodbridge 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 Woodbridge 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 Woodbridge 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 309.758 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.323 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.559 degrees.