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 North Park:
47.706487, -122.349851
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 North 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 King County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eighteen communities that are also named North Park.
Within Washington, the name North Park is unique.
Beyond Washington, we know of eighteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eighteen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
San Diego County
This North Park is located in San Diego County and lies 1,068 miles [1,718.8 km]<1> to the south southeast of the North Park that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Diego County community of North Park.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This North Park is located in Hillsborough County and lies 2,524 miles [4,062 km]<1> to the east southeast of the North Park that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of North Park.
Illinois
Cook County
This North Park is located in Cook County and lies 1,725 miles [2,776.1 km]<1> to the east of the North Park that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of North Park.
Winnebago County
This North Park is located in Winnebago County and lies 1,658 miles [2,668.3 km] to the east of the North Park that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Winnebago County community of North Park.
Indiana
Bartholomew County
This North Park is located in Bartholomew County and lies 1,893 miles [3,046.5 km]<1> to the east of the North Park that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bartholomew County community of North Park.
Vanderburgh 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 North Park [Vanderburgh County].
Michigan
Kent 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 Michigan community of North Park [Kent County].
Mississippi
Lee County
This North Park is located in Lee County and lies 1,960 miles [3,154.3 km]<1> to the east southeast of the North Park that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lee County community of North Park.
Ontario
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 Ontario community of North Park.
Pennsylvania
Bucks County
This North Park is located in Bucks County and lies 2,380 miles [3,830.2 km]<1> to the east of the North Park that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bucks County community of North Park.
Saskatchewan
This North Park lies 760 miles [1,223.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the North Park that is located in King County.
Tennessee
Montgomery County
This North Park is located in Montgomery County and lies 1,925 miles [3,098 km]<1> to the east of the North Park that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of North Park.
Texas
Taylor 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 Texas community of North Park [Taylor County].
Utah
Davis County
This North Park is located in Davis County and lies 698 miles [1,123.3 km]<1> to the southeast of the North Park that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davis County community of North Park.
Weber County
This North Park is located in Weber County and lies 677 miles [1,089.5 km] to the southeast of the North Park that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of North Park.
West Virginia
Ohio County
This North Park is located in Ohio County and lies 2,110 miles [3,395.7 km]<1> to the east of the North Park that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ohio County community of North Park.
Putnam County
This North Park is located in Putnam County and lies 2,101 miles [3,381.2 km] to the east of the North Park that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Putnam County community of North Park.
Wisconsin
Racine 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 North Park [Racine County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near North 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 North Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in North Park and extending to:
Olympia, which is the State Capital of Washington, lies 52 miles [83.7 km]<1> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could walk a straight line from North Park to Olympia, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,321 miles [3,735.3 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 91 days and walking would take 132 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,767 miles [10,890.4 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 7,529 miles [12,116.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,654 miles [9,099.2 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- North 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 North 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 North 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 North Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.7065, Longitude: -122.3499 In this case, the coordinates for North Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 340.893 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 342.456 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.763 degrees.