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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 Hart, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hart and the surrounding area.

  • 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 Hart:
    • 40.664594, -122.440845
    • 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 Hart
  • 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 Shasta County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Shasta County
    • Since Hart is near Trinity County and also Tehama County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Trinity County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Tehama County
  • 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:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Hart

Communities Also Named Hart ...

We found eighteen communities that are also named Hart.

There is one other community in California that is also named Hart.

Beyond California, we know of seventeen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, seventeen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In California ...
    • San Bernardino County
      • This Hart is located in San Bernardino County and lies 544 miles [875.5 km]<1> to the southeast of the Hart that is located in Shasta County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Bernardino County community of Hart.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Benton 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 Arkansas community of Hart [Benton County].
      • White County
      • This Hart is located in White County and lies 1,685 miles [2,711.7 km]<1> to the east of the Hart that is located in Shasta County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the White County community of Hart.
    • Georgia
      • Bibb 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 Georgia community of Hart [Bibb County].
    • Idaho
      • Madison County
      • This Hart is located in Madison County and lies 589 miles [947.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Hart that is located in Shasta County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Hart.
    • Illinois
      • DeKalb 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 Illinois community of Hart [DeKalb County].
    • Iowa
      • Sac County
      • This Hart is located in Sac County and lies 1,418 miles [2,282 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Hart that is located in Shasta County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sac County community of Hart.
    • Kentucky
      • Laurel 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 Kentucky community of Hart [Laurel County].
    • Michigan
      • Oceana County
      • This Hart is located in Oceana County and lies 1,843 miles [2,966 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Hart that is located in Shasta County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oceana County community of Hart.
    • Minnesota
      • Winona County
      • This Hart is located in Winona County and lies 1,575 miles [2,534.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Hart that is located in Shasta County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Winona County community of Hart.
    • Missouri
      • Macon County
      • This Hart is located in Macon County and lies 1,554 miles [2,500.9 km]<1> to the east of the Hart that is located in Shasta County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Macon County community of Hart.
      • McDonald County
      • This Hart is located in McDonald County and lies 1,517 miles [2,441.4 km] to the east of the Hart that is located in Shasta County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the McDonald County community of Hart.
    • Nevada
      • Clark County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Clark County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of Hart.
    • Oklahoma
      • Pontotoc County
      • This Hart is located in Pontotoc County and lies 1,448 miles [2,330.3 km]<1> to the east of the Hart that is located in Shasta County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pontotoc County community of Hart.
    • Saskatchewan
      • This Hart lies 1,008 miles [1,622.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Hart that is located in Shasta County.
    • South Carolina
      • York 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 South Carolina community of Hart [York County].
    • Tennessee
      • Bledsoe 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 Tennessee community of Hart [Bledsoe County].
    • Texas
      • Castro County
      • This Hart is located in Castro County and lies 1,191 miles [1,916.7 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Hart that is located in Shasta County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Castro County community of Hart.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Hart ...

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.

  • Buckeye
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Buckeye is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
  • Churntown ‑ Historic
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Churntown is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Churntown
    • Former name for Churntown:
    • One Wagon Town
  • Fielding ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Fielding is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fielding
  • Hogtown ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Hogtown is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hogtown
  • Iron Mountain ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Iron Mountain is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Mountain
  • Minnesota
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Minnesota is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnesota
  • Project City ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Project City is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Project City
  • Summit City ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Summit City is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit City

How Far From Hart to ...

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic community of Hart once stood, the straight-line distance beginning in Hart and extending to:

  • Redding, which is the Seat of Shasta County, lies just to the South Southeast.
  • Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 152 miles [244.6 km]<1> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could drive a straight line from Hart to Sacramento, 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 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,385 miles [3,838.3 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 94 days and walking would take 136 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,227 miles [11,630.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,993 miles [12,863.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,069 miles [9,767.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>'

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 from Point A (ie- Hart) 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 Hart, 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 Hart 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 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 Hart 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 Hart. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6646, Longitude: -122.4408       In this case, the coordinates for Hart have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 340.501 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 341.65 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 328.156 degrees.