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 Olive Hill:
39.288224, -121.470243
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 Olive Hill
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 four communities that are also named Olive Hill.
Within California, the name Olive Hill is unique.
Beyond California, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Indiana
Wayne County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Olive Hill [Wayne County].
Kentucky
Carter County
This Olive Hill is located in Carter County and lies 2,046 miles [3,292.7 km]<2> to the east of the Olive Hill that is located in Yuba County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carter County community of Olive Hill.
North Carolina
Macon County
This Olive Hill is located in Macon County and lies 2,093 miles [3,368.4 km]<2> to the east of the Olive Hill that is located in Yuba County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Macon County community of Olive Hill.
Person County
This Olive Hill is located in Person County and lies 2,300 miles [3,701.5 km] to the east of the Olive Hill that is located in Yuba County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Person County community of Olive Hill.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Olive Hill ...
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 community such as Olive Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Olive Hill and extending to:
Marysville, which is the Seat of Yuba County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Olive Hill to Marysville, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 48 miles [77.2 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take most of two days and walking would take about three full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,356 miles [3,791.6 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 92 days and walking would take 134 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,299 miles [11,746.6 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 8,066 miles [12,981 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,122 miles [9,852.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 Olive Hill 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.
<2>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Olive Hill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Olive Hill 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 Olive Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.2882, Longitude: -121.4702 In this case, the coordinates for Olive Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 339.56 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 340.458 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.573 degrees.