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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 Campbell Corner:
43.833680, -72.310926
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 Campbell Corner
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 Orange County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named Campbell Corner.
Within Vermont, the name Campbell Corner is unique.
Beyond Vermont, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Indiana
Sullivan County
This Campbell Corner is located in Sullivan County and lies 843 miles [1,356.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Campbell Corner that is located in Orange County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sullivan County community of Campbell Corner.
Maryland
Montgomery County
This Campbell Corner is located in Montgomery County and lies 418 miles [672.7 km]<1> to the southwest of the Campbell Corner that is located in Orange County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Campbell Corner.
Missouri
Holt County
This Campbell Corner is located in Holt County and lies 1,192 miles [1,918.3 km]<1> to the west of the Campbell Corner that is located in Orange County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Holt County community of Campbell Corner.
Virginia
Buckingham County
This Campbell Corner is located in Buckingham County and lies 528 miles [849.7 km]<1> to the southwest of the Campbell Corner that is located in Orange County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Buckingham County community of Campbell Corner.
Caroline County
This Campbell Corner is located in Caroline County and lies 490 miles [788.6 km] to the southwest of the Campbell Corner that is located in Orange County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caroline County community of Campbell Corner.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Campbell Corner ...
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.
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 Campbell Corner to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Campbell Corner and extending to:
Chelsea, which is the Seat of Orange County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the north northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Campbell Corner to Chelsea, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Montpelier, which is the State Capital of Vermont, lies 32 miles [51.5 km] to the north northwest (NNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take just over a day and walking would take most of two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 419 miles [674.3 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 17 days and walking would take 24 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,499 miles [8,849.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,214 miles [10,000.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,090 miles [6,582.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<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 drawn from Point A (ie- Campbell Corner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Campbell Corner 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 Campbell Corner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.8337, Longitude: -72.3109 In this case, the coordinates for Campbell Corner have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.515 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.425 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.393 degrees.