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 Lakeshore:
45.690116, -122.695654
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 Lakeshore
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 Clark County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found fifteen communities that are also named Lakeshore.
Within Washington, the name Lakeshore is unique.
Beyond Washington, we know of fifteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Fresno County
This Lakeshore is located in Fresno County and lies 610 miles [981.7 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Lakeshore that is located in Clark County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fresno County community of Lakeshore.
Placer County
This Lakeshore is located in Placer County and lies 481 miles [774.1 km] to the south of the Lakeshore that is located in Clark County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Placer County community of Lakeshore.
Shasta County
This Lakeshore is located in Shasta County and lies 332 miles [534.3 km] to the south of the Lakeshore that is located in Clark County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shasta County community of Lakeshore.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Lakeshore is located in Hillsborough County and lies 2,492 miles [4,010.5 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Lakeshore that is located in Clark County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Lakeshore.
Polk County
This Lakeshore is located in Polk County and lies 2,555 miles [4,111.9 km] to the east southeast of the Lakeshore that is located in Clark County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Polk County community of Lakeshore.
Georgia
Muscogee County
This Lakeshore is located in Muscogee County and lies 2,194 miles [3,530.9 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Lakeshore that is located in Clark County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Muscogee County community of Lakeshore.
Kansas
Shawnee 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 Kansas community of Lakeshore [Shawnee County].
Kentucky
Caldwell County
This Lakeshore is located in Caldwell County and lies 1,888 miles [3,038.4 km]<1> to the east of the Lakeshore that is located in Clark County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caldwell County community of Lakeshore.
Louisiana
Ouachita Parish
This Lakeshore is located in Ouachita Parish and lies 1,860 miles [2,993.4 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Lakeshore that is located in Clark County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ouachita Parish community of Lakeshore.
Maine
Kennebec 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 Maine community of Lakeshore [Kennebec County].
Mississippi
Hancock County
This Lakeshore is located in Hancock County and lies 2,079 miles [3,345.8 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Lakeshore that is located in Clark County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hancock County community of Lakeshore.
Rankin County
This Lakeshore is located in Rankin County and lies 1,958 miles [3,151.1 km] to the east southeast of the Lakeshore that is located in Clark County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rankin County community of Lakeshore.
Ohio
Hamilton 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 Ohio community of Lakeshore [Hamilton County].
Ontario
We haven't found the location of this community yet.
Wisconsin
Sheboygan 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 Wisconsin community of Lakeshore [Sheboygan County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Lakeshore ...
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.
Blurock Landing (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
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 Lakeshore to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Lakeshore and extending to:
Olympia, which is the State Capital of Washington, lies 93 miles [149.7 km]<1> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Lakeshore to Olympia, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,345 miles [3,773.9 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 92 days and walking would take 134 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,904 miles [11,110.9 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 7,666 miles [12,337.2 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,781 miles [9,303.6 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lakeshore) 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Lakeshore 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 Lakeshore 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 Lakeshore. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.6901, Longitude: -122.6957 In this case, the coordinates for Lakeshore have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 341.076 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 342.569 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 328.124 degrees.