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 Edgewood Acres:
38.381208, -81.631235
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 Edgewood Acres
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 Kanawha County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Edgewood Acres.
Within West Virginia, the name Edgewood Acres is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Bulloch County
This Edgewood Acres is located in Bulloch County and lies 411 miles [661.4 km]<1> to the south of the Edgewood Acres that is located in Kanawha County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bulloch County community of Edgewood Acres.
Mississippi
Hinds County
This Edgewood Acres is located in Hinds County and lies 640 miles [1,030 km]<1> to the southwest of the Edgewood Acres that is located in Kanawha County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hinds County community of Edgewood Acres.
Tennessee
Blount County
This Edgewood Acres is located in Blount County and lies 218 miles [350.8 km]<1> to the southwest of the Edgewood Acres that is located in Kanawha County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blount County community of Edgewood Acres.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Edgewood Acres ...
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 Edgewood Acres to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Edgewood Acres and extending to:
The White House (Washington, DC) is 250 miles [402.3 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Edgewood Acres to White House, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 15 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 10 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,112 miles [9,836.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,826 miles [10,985.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,701 miles [7,565.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
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- Edgewood Acres) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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.
<3>
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 Edgewood Acres 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 Edgewood Acres. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.3812, Longitude: -81.6312 In this case, the coordinates for Edgewood Acres have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.66 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.516 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.853 degrees.