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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 West Side:
38.365652, -81.651791
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 sixteen communities that share the name West Side.
Within West Virginia, the name West Side is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jefferson County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of West Side [Jefferson County].
Montgomery County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of West Side [Montgomery County].
Connecticut
New London County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Connecticut community of West Side [New London County].
Indiana
Marion County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of West Side [Marion County].
Louisiana
Vernon Parish
This West Side is located in Vernon Parish and lies 825 miles [1,327.7 km]<2> to the west southwest of the West Side that is located in Kanawha County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Vernon Parish community of West Side.
Nova Scotia
This West Side lies 885 miles [1,424.3 km]<2> to the east northeast of the West Side that is located in Kanawha County.
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of West Side [Cuyahoga County].
Hamilton County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of West Side [Hamilton County].
Mahoning County
This West Side is located in Mahoning County and lies 195 miles [313.8 km]<2> to the north northeast of the West Side that is located in Kanawha County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mahoning County community of West Side.
Montgomery County
This West Side is located in Montgomery County and lies 167 miles [268.8 km] to the northwest of the West Side that is located in Kanawha County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of West Side.
Oregon
Lake County
This West Side is located in Lake County and lies 2,045 miles [3,291.1 km]<2> to the west northwest of the West Side that is located in Kanawha County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lake County community of West Side.
Lane County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of West Side [Lane County].
Pennsylvania
Luzerne County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of West Side [Luzerne County].
Westmoreland County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of West Side [Westmoreland County].
Texas
Jefferson County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of West Side [Jefferson County].
Washington
Yakima County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Washington community of West Side [Yakima County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near West Side ...
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 West Side to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in West Side and extending to:
The White House (Washington, DC) is 251 miles [403.9 km]<2> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from West Side to White House, with an average speed<4>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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,113 miles [9,837.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,827 miles [10,987 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,703 miles [7,568.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 West Side 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.
<2>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- West Side) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Side. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.3657, Longitude: -81.6518 In this case, the coordinates for West Side have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<3>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<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 West Side to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.673 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.529 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.867 degrees.