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 Williamson:
37.674264, -82.277181
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 Williamson
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 Mingo County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found twelve communities that are also named Williamson.
Within West Virginia, the name Williamson is unique.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Arizona
Yavapai County
This Williamson is located in Yavapai County and lies 1,691 miles [2,721.4 km]<1> to the west of the Williamson that is located in Mingo County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yavapai County community of Williamson.
Arkansas
Sevier County
This Williamson is located in Sevier County and lies 721 miles [1,160.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Williamson that is located in Mingo County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sevier County community of Williamson.
Georgia
Pike County
This Williamson is located in Pike County and lies 331 miles [532.7 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Williamson that is located in Mingo County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pike County community of Williamson.
Illinois
Madison County
This Williamson is located in Madison County and lies 415 miles [667.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Williamson that is located in Mingo County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Williamson.
Iowa
Adams County
This Williamson is located in Adams County and lies 697 miles [1,121.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Williamson that is located in Mingo County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Adams County community of Williamson.
Lucas County
This Williamson is located in Lucas County and lies 631 miles [1,015.5 km] to the west northwest of the Williamson that is located in Mingo County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lucas County community of Williamson.
Louisiana
Saint Landry Parish
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 Louisiana community of Williamson [Saint Landry Parish].
Michigan
Manistee 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 Michigan community of Williamson [Manistee County].
New York
Wayne County
This Williamson is located in Wayne County and lies 467 miles [751.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Williamson that is located in Mingo County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Williamson.
Pennsylvania
Delaware 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 Pennsylvania community of Williamson [Delaware County].
Franklin County
This Williamson is located in Franklin County and lies 284 miles [457.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Williamson that is located in Mingo County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Williamson.
Texas
Travis County
This Williamson is located in Travis County and lies 1,026 miles [1,651.2 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Williamson that is located in Mingo County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Travis County community of Williamson.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Williamson ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a city such as Williamson to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Williamson and extending to:
Charleston, which is the State Capital of West Virginia, lies 58 miles [93.3 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could walk a straight line from Williamson to Charleston, with an average speed<5> 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 296 miles [476.4 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<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,170 miles [9,929.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,883 miles [11,077.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,759 miles [7,658.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Williamson) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Williamson, 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Williamson 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>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>
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.
<6>
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 Williamson 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 Williamson. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.6743, Longitude: -82.2772
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.062 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.871 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.352 degrees.