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 Glenville:
41.035292, -73.659984
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 Glenville
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 Fairfield County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found twenty communities that are also named Glenville.
Within Connecticut, the name Glenville is unique.
Beyond Connecticut, we know of twenty communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these twenty communities, eighteen are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Russell County
This Glenville is located in Russell County and lies 885 miles [1,424.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Glenville that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Russell County community of Glenville.
Arkansas
Nevada County
This Glenville is located in Nevada County and lies 1,189 miles [1,913.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Glenville that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nevada County community of Glenville.
California
Kern 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 California community of Glenville [Kern County].
Delaware
New Castle County
This Glenville is located in New Castle County and lies 138 miles [222.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the Glenville that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of Glenville.
Kansas
Sedgwick County
This Glenville is located in Sedgwick County and lies 1,283 miles [2,064.8 km]<1> to the west of the Glenville that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sedgwick County community of Glenville.
Kentucky
McLean County
This Glenville is located in McLean County and lies 759 miles [1,221.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Glenville that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the McLean County community of Glenville.
Maryland
Harford County
This Glenville is located in Harford County and lies 166 miles [267.2 km]<1> to the southwest of the Glenville that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Glenville.
Minnesota
Freeborn County
This Glenville is located in Freeborn County and lies 1,014 miles [1,631.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Glenville that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Freeborn County community of Glenville.
Mississippi
Panola County
This Glenville is located in Panola County and lies 983 miles [1,582 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Glenville that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Panola County community of Glenville.
New York
Livingston County
This Glenville is located in Livingston County and lies 235 miles [378.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Glenville that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Livingston County community of Glenville.
Saratoga 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 New York community of Glenville [Saratoga County].
Schenectady County
This Glenville is located in Schenectady County and lies 132 miles [212.4 km] to the north of the Glenville that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Schenectady County community of Glenville.
Westchester County
This Glenville is located in Westchester County and lies 9 miles [14.5 km] to the west northwest of the Glenville that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Westchester County community of Glenville.
North Carolina
Jackson County
This Glenville is located in Jackson County and lies 653 miles [1,050.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Glenville that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Glenville.
Nova Scotia
This Glenville lies 582 miles [936.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Glenville that is located in Fairfield County.
Ohio
Crawford 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 Glenville [Crawford County].
Cuyahoga County
This Glenville is located in Cuyahoga County and lies 414 miles [666.3 km]<1> to the west of the Glenville that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cuyahoga County community of Glenville.
Ontario
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 Ontario community of Glenville.
Pennsylvania
York County
This Glenville is located in York County and lies 187 miles [300.9 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Glenville that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Glenville.
West Virginia
Gilmer County
This Glenville is located in Gilmer County and lies 406 miles [653.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Glenville that is located in Fairfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gilmer County community of Glenville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Glenville ...
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 Glenville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Glenville and extending to:
Hartford, which is the State Capital of Connecticut, lies 71 miles [114.3 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Glenville to Hartford, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 4 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 231 miles [371.8 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 14 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,666 miles [9,118.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,372 miles [10,254.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,249 miles [6,838.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Glenville) 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 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 Glenville 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 Glenville, 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 Glenville 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 Glenville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.0353, Longitude: -73.6600
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.702 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.298 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.367 degrees.