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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Whitesville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Whitesville and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • 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 Whitesville:
    • 37.975288, -81.529201
    • 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.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Whitesville
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Waymark.com

Communities Also Named Whitesville ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Whitesville.

Within West Virginia, the name Whitesville is unique.

Beyond West Virginia, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Marshall County
      • This Whitesville is located in Marshall County and lies 371 miles [597.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the Whitesville that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marshall County community of Whitesville.
    • Delaware
      • Sussex County
      • This Whitesville is located in Sussex County and lies 332 miles [534.3 km]<1> to the east of the Whitesville that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sussex County community of Whitesville.
    • Georgia
      • Harris County
      • This Whitesville is located in Harris County and lies 406 miles [653.4 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Whitesville that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Whitesville.
    • Illinois
      • Saline 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 Illinois community of Whitesville [Saline County].
    • Indiana
      • Montgomery County
      • This Whitesville is located in Montgomery County and lies 316 miles [508.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Whitesville that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Whitesville.
    • Kentucky
      • Daviess County
      • This Whitesville is located in Daviess County and lies 292 miles [469.9 km]<1> to the west of the Whitesville that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Daviess County community of Whitesville.
    • Mississippi
      • Washington County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Whitesville [Washington County].
    • Missouri
      • Andrew 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 Missouri community of Whitesville [Andrew County].
    • New Jersey
      • Monmouth County
      • This Whitesville is located in Monmouth County and lies 430 miles [692 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Whitesville that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monmouth County community of Whitesville.
      • Ocean County
      • This Whitesville is located in Ocean County and lies 415 miles [667.9 km] to the east northeast of the Whitesville that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ocean County community of Whitesville.
    • New York
      • Allegany County
      • This Whitesville is located in Allegany County and lies 343 miles [552 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Whitesville that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allegany County community of Whitesville.
    • South Carolina
      • Berkeley County
      • This Whitesville is located in Berkeley County and lies 343 miles [552 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Whitesville that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Berkeley County community of Whitesville.
    • Vermont
      • Windsor County
      • This Whitesville is located in Windsor County and lies 598 miles [962.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Whitesville that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Windsor County community of Whitesville.
    • Virginia
      • Accomack County
      • This Whitesville is located in Accomack County and lies 320 miles [515 km]<1> to the east of the Whitesville that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Accomack County community of Whitesville.
      • Halifax County
      • This Whitesville is located in Halifax County and lies 162 miles [260.7 km] to the east southeast of the Whitesville that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Halifax County community of Whitesville.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Whitesville ...

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.

  • Acme
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Dorothy
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Elk Run Junction
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Janie
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Keith
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Leevale
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leevale have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leevale
    • Leevale is located in Raleigh County
  • Milltown
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Milltown. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milltown
    • Milltown is located in Boone County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Milltown
    • From Whitesville to Milltown
  • Packsville
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Red Warrior
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Red Warrior have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Warrior
    • Red Warrior is located in Kanawha County
  • Sundial
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sundial have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sundial
    • Sundial is located in Raleigh County
  • Twilight
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • United
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for United have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for United
    • United is located in Kanawha County

How Far From Whitesville to ...

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 town such as Whitesville to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Whitesville and extending to:

  • Madison, which is the Seat of Boone County, lies 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> to the west northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Whitesville to Madison, with an average speed<6> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take five to six hours.
  • Charleston, which is the State Capital of West Virginia, lies 26 miles [41.8 km] to the north (N). The buggy would take just over a day and walking would take just about two full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 251 miles [403.9 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 15 days.
  • The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,126 miles [9,858.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,838 miles [11,004.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,714 miles [7,586.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Whitesville. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of West Virginia: https://www.wv.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Whitesville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Whitesville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.9753, Longitude: -81.5292    
<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 Whitesville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Whitesville 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.
<4>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>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.
<6>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.
<7>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 Whitesville to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.606 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.394 degrees.
<10>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.939 degrees.




 

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