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 Town Hill:
41.853152, -72.998994
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 Town 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 Litchfield County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Town Hill.
Within Connecticut, the name Town Hill is unique.
Beyond Connecticut, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Indiana
Brown County
This Town Hill is located in Brown County and lies 718 miles [1,155.5 km]<1> to the west of the Town Hill that is located in Litchfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brown County community of Town Hill.
Maine
Hancock County
This Town Hill is located in Hancock County and lies 293 miles [471.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Town Hill that is located in Litchfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hancock County community of Town Hill.
Pennsylvania
Luzerne County
This Town Hill is located in Luzerne County and lies 174 miles [280 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Town Hill that is located in Litchfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Luzerne County community of Town Hill.
West Virginia
Grant County
This Town Hill is located in Grant County and lies 377 miles [606.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Town Hill that is located in Litchfield County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grant County community of Town Hill.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Town 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, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Town Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Town Hill and extending to:
Hartford, which is the State Capital of Connecticut, lies 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could walk a straight line from Town Hill to Hartford, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take five to six hours.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 294 miles [473.1 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 12 days and walking would take 17 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,605 miles [9,020.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,314 miles [10,161.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,190 miles [6,743.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Town Hill) 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.
<4>
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 Town 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 Town Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.8532, Longitude: -72.9990 In this case, the coordinates for Town Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.209 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.875 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.692 degrees.