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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 Woodridge, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Woodridge 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 Woodridge:
    • 38.359300, -77.573500
    • 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 Woodridge
  • 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 Stafford County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Stafford County
    • Since Woodridge is near Spotsylvania County and also Fredericksburg City, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Spotsylvania County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Fredericksburg City
  • 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 Woodridge

Communities Also Named Woodridge ...

We found eighteen communities that are also named Woodridge.

There is one other community in Virginia that is also named Woodridge.

Beyond Virginia, we know of seventeen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Virginia ...
    • Albemarle County
      • This Woodridge is located in Albemarle County and lies 56 miles [90.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Woodridge that is located in Stafford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Albemarle County community of Woodridge.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Madison County
      • This Woodridge is located in Madison County and lies 560 miles [901.2 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Woodridge that is located in Stafford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Woodridge.
    • Illinois
      • DuPage County
      • This Woodridge is located in DuPage County and lies 599 miles [964 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Woodridge that is located in Stafford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the DuPage County community of Woodridge.
      • Lake County
      • This Woodridge is located in Lake County and lies 599 miles [964 km] to the west northwest of the Woodridge that is located in Stafford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lake County community of Woodridge.
    • Indiana
      • Vigo 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 Indiana community of Woodridge [Vigo County].
    • Manitoba
      • This Woodridge lies 1,188 miles [1,911.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Woodridge that is located in Stafford County.
    • Maryland
      • Calvert County
      • This Woodridge is located in Calvert County and lies 54 miles [86.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Woodridge that is located in Stafford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calvert County community of Woodridge.
      • Frederick County
      • This Woodridge is located in Frederick County and lies 74 miles [119.1 km] to the north of the Woodridge that is located in Stafford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of Woodridge.
    • Missouri
      • Saint Louis 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 Missouri community of Woodridge [Saint Louis County].
    • New York
      • Sullivan County
      • This Woodridge is located in Sullivan County and lies 280 miles [450.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Woodridge that is located in Stafford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sullivan County community of Woodridge.
    • North Carolina
      • Nash County
      • This Woodridge is located in Nash County and lies 166 miles [267.2 km]<1> to the south of the Woodridge that is located in Stafford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nash County community of Woodridge.
      • Wake County
      • This Woodridge is located in Wake County and lies 191 miles [307.4 km] to the south southwest of the Woodridge that is located in Stafford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wake County community of Woodridge.
    • Ontario
      • This Woodridge lies 437 miles [703.3 km]<1> to the north of the Woodridge that is located in Stafford County.
    • South Carolina
      • Aiken County
      • This Woodridge is located in Aiken County and lies 412 miles [663 km]<1> to the southwest of the Woodridge that is located in Stafford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Aiken County community of Woodridge.
      • Orangeburg County
      • This Woodridge is located in Orangeburg County and lies 381 miles [613.2 km] to the south southwest of the Woodridge that is located in Stafford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orangeburg County community of Woodridge.
      • Spartanburg County
      • This Woodridge is located in Spartanburg County and lies 339 miles [545.6 km] to the southwest of the Woodridge that is located in Stafford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Spartanburg County community of Woodridge.
    • Texas
      • Orange County
      • Although located in Orange County, we don't know the location within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orange County community of Woodridge.
    • Utah
      • Salt Lake County
      • This Woodridge is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,821 miles [2,930.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Woodridge that is located in Stafford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Woodridge.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Woodridge ...

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.

  • England Run
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • England Run is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for England Run
  • English Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • English Hills is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for English Hills
  • Heartland Ridge
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Heartland Ridge is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heartland Ridge
  • Holly Corner
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Holly Corner is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly Corner
  • Holly Corners
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Holly Corners is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly Corners
  • Mine Ridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Mine Ridge is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mine Ridge
  • Old Banks
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Old Banks is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Banks
  • Peach Lawn
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Peach Lawn is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peach Lawn
  • Scenic Ridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Scenic Ridge is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scenic Ridge
  • Summerset Ridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Summerset Ridge is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerset Ridge
  • Walnut Grove
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Walnut Grove is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove

How Far From Woodridge to ...

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 Woodridge to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Stafford, which is the Seat of Stafford County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Woodridge to Stafford, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
  • Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 56 miles [90.1 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take over two days and walking would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 47 miles [75.6 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take less than an hour, a buggy would take most of two days and walking would take about three full days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,943 miles [9,564.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,647 miles [10,697.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,524 miles [7,280.7 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Woodridge) 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 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 Woodridge 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 Woodridge 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 Woodridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.3593, Longitude: -77.5735       In this case, the coordinates for Woodridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.237 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.751 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.142 degrees.