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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 Longville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Longville 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 Longville:
    • 40.147044, -121.243147
    • 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 Longville
  • 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 Plumas County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Plumas County
    • Since Longville is near Tehama County and also Lassen County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Tehama County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lassen 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 Longville

Communities Also Named Longville ...

We found six communities that are also named Longville.

Within California, the name Longville is unique.

Beyond California, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Louisiana
      • Beauregard Parish
      • This Longville is located in Beauregard Parish and lies 1,699 miles [2,734.3 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Longville that is located in Plumas County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Beauregard Parish community of Longville.
    • Maryland
      • Carroll County
      • This Longville is located in Carroll County and lies 2,308 miles [3,714.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Longville that is located in Plumas County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Longville.
    • Minnesota
      • Cass County
      • This Longville is located in Cass County and lies 1,423 miles [2,290.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Longville that is located in Plumas County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cass County community of Longville.
    • Mississippi
      • Lee County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Longville [Lee County].
    • Missouri
      • Macon County
      • This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Longville [Macon County].
    • Ohio
      • Marion County
      • This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Longville [Marion County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Longville ...

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.

How Far From Longville 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 Longville to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Quincy, which is the Seat of Plumas County, lies 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> to the southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Longville to Quincy, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
  • Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 108 miles [173.8 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,331 miles [3,751.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 91 days and walking would take 133 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,239 miles [11,650 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,006 miles [12,884.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,065 miles [9,760.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<9>'

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- Longville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 Longville 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.
<3>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 Longville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Longville 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 Longville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.1470, Longitude: -121.2431    
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 339.452 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 340.374 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.418 degrees.