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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 Sherman Heights:
47.544261, -122.678752
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 Sherman Heights
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 four communities that are also named Sherman Heights.
Within Washington, the name Sherman Heights is unique.
Beyond Washington, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Calhoun County
This Sherman Heights is located in Calhoun County and lies 2,128 miles [3,424.7 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Sherman Heights that is located in Kitsap County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calhoun County community of Sherman Heights.
Jefferson County
This Sherman Heights is located in Jefferson County and lies 2,087 miles [3,358.7 km] to the east southeast of the Sherman Heights that is located in Kitsap County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Sherman Heights.
California
San Diego County
This Sherman Heights is located in San Diego County and lies 1,064 miles [1,712.3 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Sherman Heights that is located in Kitsap County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Diego County community of Sherman Heights.
Tennessee
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 Tennessee community of Sherman Heights [Hamilton County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sherman Heights ...
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 Sherman Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sherman Heights and extending to:
Olympia, which is the State Capital of Washington, lies 36 miles [57.9 km]<1> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could walk a straight line from Sherman Heights 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 2,336 miles [3,759.4 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 6,782 miles [10,914.6 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 7,544 miles [12,140.9 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,672 miles [9,128.2 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- Sherman Heights) 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 Sherman Heights 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 Sherman Heights 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 Sherman Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.5443, Longitude: -122.6788 In this case, the coordinates for Sherman Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 341.158 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 342.756 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.991 degrees.