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 New Helvetia:
39.162392, -121.556632
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 New Helvetia
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 Yuba County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named New Helvetia.
There is one other community in California that is also named New Helvetia.
Beyond California.
Communities Located In California ...
Sacramento County
This New Helvetia is located in Sacramento County and lies 41 miles [66 km]<1> to the south of the New Helvetia that is located in Yuba County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sacramento County community of New Helvetia.
Curious and Interesting Names Near New Helvetia ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as New Helvetia to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in New Helvetia and extending to:
Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> to the south (S). If you could walk a straight line from New Helvetia to Sacramento, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take over two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,363 miles [3,802.9 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take 5 days, a buggy would take 93 days and walking would take 135 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,309 miles [11,762.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,076 miles [12,997.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,132 miles [9,868.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- New Helvetia) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
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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.
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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 New Helvetia 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 New Helvetia. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.1624, Longitude: -121.5566 In this case, the coordinates for New Helvetia have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 339.62 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 340.523 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.628 degrees.