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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 Varney:
37.669271, -82.122075
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.
We found four communities that are also named Varney.
Within West Virginia, the name Varney is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of four communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Kentucky
Pike County
This Varney is located in Pike County and lies 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> to the west of the Varney that is located in Mingo County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pike County community of Varney.
Montana
Madison County
This Varney is located in Madison County and lies 1,609 miles [2,589.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Varney that is located in Mingo County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Varney.
New Mexico
Torrance County
This Varney is located in Torrance County and lies 1,326 miles [2,134 km]<1> to the west of the Varney that is located in Mingo County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Torrance County community of Varney.
Ontario
This Varney lies 451 miles [725.8 km]<1> to the north of the Varney that is located in Mingo County.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Varney ...
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.
Blackberry City (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Varney to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Varney and extending to:
Charleston, which is the State Capital of West Virginia, lies 54 miles [86.9 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could walk a straight line from Varney to Charleston, with an average speed<2> 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 288 miles [463.5 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 12 days and walking would take 17 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,164 miles [9,920 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,877 miles [11,067.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,752 miles [7,647.6 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Varney) 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 Varney 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 Varney. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.6693, Longitude: -82.1221 In this case, the coordinates for Varney have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.968 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.763 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.287 degrees.