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 South Barre:
44.177006, -72.505660
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 South Barre
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 Washington County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named South Barre.
Within Vermont, the name South Barre is unique.
Beyond Vermont, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Massachusetts
Worcester County
This South Barre is located in Worcester County and lies 125 miles [201.2 km]<1> to the south of the South Barre that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Worcester County community of South Barre.
New York
Orleans County
This South Barre is located in Orleans County and lies 290 miles [466.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the South Barre that is located in Washington County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orleans County community of South Barre.
Curious and Interesting Names Near South Barre ...
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 South Barre to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in South Barre and extending to:
Montpelier, which is the State Capital of Vermont, lies just to the north northwest (NNW).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 433 miles [696.8 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from South Barre to White House, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 25 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 17 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,493 miles [8,840.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,211 miles [9,995.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,086 miles [6,575.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- South Barre) 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.
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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.
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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 South Barre 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 South Barre. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.1770, Longitude: -72.5057 In this case, the coordinates for South Barre have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 304.584 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.56 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.31 degrees.