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 Woodmere:
37.199594, -77.382481
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 thirteen communities that share the name Woodmere.
Within Virginia, the name Woodmere is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another thirteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
British Columbia
This Woodmere lies 2,598 miles [4,181.1 km]<1> to the northwest.
Florida
Sarasota County
This Woodmere is located in Sarasota County and lies 761 miles [1,224.7 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sarasota County community of Woodmere.
Georgia
Cobb County
This Woodmere is located in Cobb County and lies 459 miles [738.7 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cobb County community of Woodmere.
Illinois
Lake 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 Illinois community of Woodmere [Lake County].
Louisiana
Jefferson Parish
This Woodmere is located in Jefferson Parish and lies 888 miles [1,429.1 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson Parish community of Woodmere.
Michigan
Wayne 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 Michigan community of Woodmere [Wayne County].
New Hampshire
Cheshire County
This Woodmere is located in Cheshire County and lies 478 miles [769.3 km]<1> to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cheshire County community of Woodmere.
New Jersey
Ocean County
This Woodmere is located in Ocean County and lies 258 miles [415.2 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ocean County community of Woodmere.
Salem County
This Woodmere is located in Salem County and lies 192 miles [309 km] to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salem County community of Woodmere.
New York
Nassau County
This Woodmere is located in Nassau County and lies 308 miles [495.7 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nassau County community of Woodmere.
Ohio
Ashtabula County
This Woodmere is located in Ashtabula County and lies 373 miles [600.3 km]<1> to the north northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ashtabula County community of Woodmere.
Cuyahoga County
This Woodmere is located in Cuyahoga County and lies 366 miles [589 km] to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cuyahoga County community of Woodmere.
Utah
Davis County
This Woodmere is located in Davis County and lies 1,854 miles [2,983.7 km]<1> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davis County community of Woodmere.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Woodmere ...
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.
Camelot (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Camelot 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 Woodmere to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Woodmere and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 23 miles [37 km]<1> to the north (N). If you could walk a straight line from Woodmere to Richmond, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 118 miles [189.9 km] to the north (N). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,984 miles [9,630.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,683 miles [10,755.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,562 miles [7,341.8 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 from Point A (ie- Woodmere) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Woodmere. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.1996, Longitude: -77.3825 In this case, the coordinates for Woodmere 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 Woodmere 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 Woodmere 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 308.183 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.514 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.49 degrees.