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 Ridgeville:
39.348432, -78.990583
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 Ridgeville
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 Mineral County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found seventeen communities that are also named Ridgeville.
Within West Virginia, the name Ridgeville is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of seventeen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Butler County
This Ridgeville is located in Butler County and lies 675 miles [1,086.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Ridgeville that is located in Mineral County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butler County community of Ridgeville.
Etowah County
This Ridgeville is located in Etowah County and lies 536 miles [862.6 km] to the southwest of the Ridgeville that is located in Mineral County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Etowah County community of Ridgeville.
California
Trinity County
This Ridgeville is located in Trinity County and lies 2,291 miles [3,687 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Ridgeville that is located in Mineral County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Trinity County community of Ridgeville.
Georgia
McIntosh County
This Ridgeville is located in McIntosh County and lies 564 miles [907.7 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Ridgeville that is located in Mineral County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the McIntosh County community of Ridgeville.
Illinois
Iroquois County
This Ridgeville is located in Iroquois County and lies 488 miles [785.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Ridgeville that is located in Mineral County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Iroquois County community of Ridgeville.
Indiana
Randolph County
This Ridgeville is located in Randolph County and lies 326 miles [524.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Ridgeville that is located in Mineral County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Randolph County community of Ridgeville.
Manitoba
This Ridgeville lies 1,111 miles [1,788 km]<1> to the northwest of the Ridgeville that is located in Mineral County.
Maryland
Carroll County
This Ridgeville is located in Carroll County and lies 97 miles [156.1 km]<1> to the east of the Ridgeville that is located in Mineral County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Ridgeville.
Michigan
Lenawee County
This Ridgeville is located in Lenawee County and lies 311 miles [500.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Ridgeville that is located in Mineral County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lenawee County community of Ridgeville.
Mississippi
Tippah 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 Mississippi community of Ridgeville [Tippah County].
North Carolina
Caswell County
This Ridgeville is located in Caswell County and lies 210 miles [338 km]<1> to the south of the Ridgeville that is located in Mineral County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caswell County community of Ridgeville.
Ohio
Warren County
This Ridgeville is located in Warren County and lies 276 miles [444.2 km]<1> to the west of the Ridgeville that is located in Mineral County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Ridgeville.
Wyandot County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Wyandot County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wyandot County community of Ridgeville.
Ontario
This Ridgeville lies 255 miles [410.4 km]<1> to the north of the Ridgeville that is located in Mineral County.
Pennsylvania
Montour County
This Ridgeville is located in Montour County and lies 169 miles [272 km]<1> to the northeast of the Ridgeville that is located in Mineral County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montour County community of Ridgeville.
South Carolina
Dorchester County
This Ridgeville is located in Dorchester County and lies 438 miles [704.9 km]<1> to the south of the Ridgeville that is located in Mineral County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dorchester County community of Ridgeville.
Tennessee
Moore County
This Ridgeville is located in Moore County and lies 489 miles [787 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Ridgeville that is located in Mineral County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Moore County community of Ridgeville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Ridgeville ...
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 Ridgeville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Ridgeville and extending to:
Charleston, which is the State Capital of West Virginia, lies 157 miles [252.7 km]<1> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could drive a straight line from Ridgeville to Charleston, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 7 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 109 miles [175.4 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,960 miles [9,591.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,672 miles [10,737.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,547 miles [7,317.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 from Point A (ie- Ridgeville) 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 Ridgeville 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>
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 Ridgeville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Ridgeville 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 Ridgeville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.3484, Longitude: -78.9906 In this case, the coordinates for Ridgeville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.029 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.803 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.379 degrees.