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 Jackson Corner:
44.087286, -72.517048
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 Jackson 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 two communities that are also named Jackson Corner.
Within Vermont, the name Jackson Corner is unique.
Beyond Vermont, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
North Carolina
Pasquotank County
This Jackson Corner is located in Pasquotank County and lies 566 miles [910.9 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Jackson Corner that is located in Orange County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pasquotank County community of Jackson Corner.
Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County
This Jackson Corner is located in Huntingdon County and lies 363 miles [584.2 km]<1> to the southwest of the Jackson Corner that is located in Orange County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Huntingdon County community of Jackson Corner.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Jackson 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 & 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 Jackson Corner to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Jackson Corner and extending to:
Montpelier, which is the State Capital of Vermont, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could walk a straight line from Jackson Corner to Montpelier, 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.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 427 miles [687.2 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 17 days and walking would take 25 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,497 miles [8,846.6 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- Jackson 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 Jackson 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 Jackson Corner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.0873, Longitude: -72.5170 In this case, the coordinates for Jackson Corner have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.604 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.568 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.361 degrees.