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 West Hill:
41.781767, -72.727595
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 West 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 Hartford County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found ten communities that are also named West Hill.
Within Connecticut, the name West Hill is unique.
Beyond Connecticut, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, nine are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Mobile County
This West Hill is located in Mobile County and lies 1,148 miles [1,847.5 km]<1> to the southwest of the West Hill that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mobile County community of West Hill.
Maryland
Carroll County
This West Hill is located in Carroll County and lies 263 miles [423.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the West Hill that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of West Hill.
Michigan
Jackson 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 Michigan community of West Hill [Jackson County].
Mississippi
Holmes County
This West Hill is located in Holmes County and lies 1,113 miles [1,791.2 km]<1> to the west southwest of the West Hill that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Holmes County community of West Hill.
Nebraska
Platte 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 Nebraska community of West Hill [Platte County].
New York
Schenectady County
This West Hill is located in Schenectady County and lies 96 miles [154.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the West Hill that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Schenectady County community of West Hill.
Ohio
Trumbull County
This West Hill is located in Trumbull County and lies 404 miles [650.2 km]<1> to the west of the West Hill that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Trumbull County community of West Hill.
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 West Hill.
Pennsylvania
Cumberland County
This West Hill is located in Cumberland County and lies 262 miles [421.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the West Hill that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of West Hill.
Vermont
Franklin County
This West Hill is located in Franklin County and lies 212 miles [341.2 km]<1> to the north of the West Hill that is located in Hartford County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of West Hill.
Curious and Interesting Names Near West 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.
Barber Corner ‑ Historic (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
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 West Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in West Hill and extending to:
Hartford, which is the State Capital of Connecticut, lies just to the east southeast (ESE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 301 miles [484.4 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from West Hill to White House, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 18 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 12 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,597 miles [9,007.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,305 miles [10,146.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,181 miles [6,728.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
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- West Hill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 West 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.
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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.
<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 West 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 West Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7818, Longitude: -72.7276 In this case, the coordinates for West Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.055 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 300.69 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.605 degrees.