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 Canebrake:
37.247614, -81.640942
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 Canebrake
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 McDowell County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Canebrake.
Within West Virginia, the name Canebrake is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Mobile County
This Canebrake is located in Mobile County and lies 589 miles [947.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Canebrake that is located in McDowell County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mobile County community of Canebrake.
California
Kern County
This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Canebrake [Kern County].
Louisiana
Concordia Parish
This Canebrake is located in Concordia Parish and lies 674 miles [1,084.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Canebrake that is located in McDowell County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Concordia Parish community of Canebrake.
Tennessee
Rutherford County
This Canebrake is located in Rutherford County and lies 273 miles [439.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Canebrake that is located in McDowell County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Canebrake.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Canebrake ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Canebrake to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Canebrake and extending to:
Welch, which is the Seat of McDowell County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> to the north northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Canebrake to Welch, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Charleston, which is the State Capital of West Virginia, lies 75 miles [120.7 km] to the north (N). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 274 miles [441 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 16 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,163 miles [9,918.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,873 miles [11,061 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,749 miles [7,642.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Canebrake) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Canebrake, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>
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.
<4>
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 Canebrake 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 Canebrake. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2476, Longitude: -81.6409 In this case, the coordinates for Canebrake have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.682 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.375 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.215 degrees.