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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 Grandview Acres:
43.612290, -72.943161
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 Grandview Acres
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 Rutland County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named Grandview Acres.
Within Vermont, the name Grandview Acres is unique.
Beyond Vermont, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Grandview Acres is located in Hillsborough County and lies 1,197 miles [1,926.4 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Grandview Acres that is located in Rutland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Grandview Acres.
Illinois
Adams County
This Grandview Acres is located in Adams County and lies 981 miles [1,578.8 km]<1> to the west of the Grandview Acres that is located in Rutland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Adams County community of Grandview Acres.
Pennsylvania
Cumberland County
This Grandview Acres is located in Cumberland County and lies 308 miles [495.7 km]<1> to the southwest of the Grandview Acres that is located in Rutland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Grandview Acres.
Utah
Davis County
This Grandview Acres is located in Davis County and lies 1,983 miles [3,191.3 km]<1> to the west of the Grandview Acres that is located in Rutland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davis County community of Grandview Acres.
Salt Lake County
This Grandview Acres is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,984 miles [3,192.9 km] to the west of the Grandview Acres that is located in Rutland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Grandview Acres.
Weber County
This Grandview Acres is located in Weber County and lies 1,977 miles [3,181.7 km] to the west of the Grandview Acres that is located in Rutland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of Grandview Acres.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Grandview Acres ...
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 & 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 Grandview Acres to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Grandview Acres and extending to:
Montpelier, which is the State Capital of Vermont, lies 48 miles [77.2 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could walk a straight line from Grandview Acres to Montpelier, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take about three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 388 miles [624.4 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 22 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,533 miles [8,904.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,249 miles [10,056.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,125 miles [6,638.5 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- Grandview Acres) 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 Grandview Acres 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 Grandview Acres. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.6123, Longitude: -72.9432 In this case, the coordinates for Grandview Acres have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.938 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.863 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.805 degrees.