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 Park:
47.587594, -122.695700
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 Park
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 Kitsap County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eight communities that are also named Jackson Park.
Within Washington, the name Jackson Park is unique.
Beyond Washington, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Santa Clara County
This Jackson Park is located in Santa Clara County and lies 704 miles [1,133 km]<1> to the south of the Jackson Park that is located in Kitsap County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Santa Clara County community of Jackson Park.
Illinois
Cook 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 Illinois community of Jackson Park [Cook County].
Indiana
Delaware 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 Jackson Park [Delaware County].
Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish
This Jackson Park is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 2,041 miles [3,284.7 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Jackson Park that is located in Kitsap County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of Jackson Park.
North Carolina
Alamance County
This Jackson Park is located in Alamance County and lies 2,326 miles [3,743.3 km]<1> to the east of the Jackson Park that is located in Kitsap County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Alamance County community of Jackson Park.
Cabarrus County
This Jackson Park is located in Cabarrus County and lies 2,301 miles [3,703.1 km] to the east of the Jackson Park that is located in Kitsap County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cabarrus County community of Jackson Park.
Henderson County
Although located in Henderson County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henderson County community of Jackson Park.
Virginia
Roanoke City
This Jackson Park is located in Roanoke City and lies 2,260 miles [3,637.1 km]<1> to the east of the Jackson Park that is located in Kitsap County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roanoke City community of Jackson Park.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Jackson Park ...
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 Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Jackson Park and extending to:
Olympia, which is the State Capital of Washington, lies 39 miles [62.8 km]<1> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could walk a straight line from Jackson Park to Olympia, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take over two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,337 miles [3,761 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take 5 days, a buggy would take 92 days and walking would take 133 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,780 miles [10,911.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,541 miles [12,136.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,669 miles [9,123.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Jackson Park) 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Jackson Park 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>
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.
<5>
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 Park 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 Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.5876, Longitude: -122.6957 In this case, the coordinates for Jackson Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 341.174 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 342.777 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.999 degrees.