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 Colonial Village:
28.037900, -82.098900
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 Colonial Village
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 Hillsborough County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found fifteen communities that are also named Colonial Village.
Within Florida, the name Colonial Village is unique.
Beyond Florida, we know of fifteen communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Dougherty County
This Colonial Village is located in Dougherty County and lies 273 miles [439.4 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Colonial Village that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dougherty County community of Colonial Village.
Illinois
Cook County
This Colonial Village is located in Cook County and lies 1,024 miles [1,648 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Colonial Village that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Colonial Village.
Madison 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 Illinois community of Colonial Village [Madison County].
Will County
This Colonial Village is located in Will County and lies 1,001 miles [1,611 km] to the north northwest of the Colonial Village that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Will County community of Colonial Village.
Indiana
Hancock County
This Colonial Village is located in Hancock County and lies 848 miles [1,364.7 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Colonial Village that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hancock County community of Colonial Village.
Iowa
Polk 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 Iowa community of Colonial Village [Polk County].
Maryland
Baltimore City
This Colonial Village is located in Baltimore City and lies 840 miles [1,351.8 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Colonial Village that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore City community of Colonial Village.
New York
Niagara County
This Colonial Village is located in Niagara County and lies 1,056 miles [1,699.5 km]<1> to the north of the Colonial Village that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Niagara County community of Colonial Village.
Pennsylvania
Montgomery County
This Colonial Village is located in Montgomery County and lies 914 miles [1,470.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Colonial Village that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Colonial Village.
Venango County
This Colonial Village is located in Venango County and lies 935 miles [1,504.7 km] to the north of the Colonial Village that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Venango County community of Colonial Village.
South Carolina
Lancaster County
This Colonial Village is located in Lancaster County and lies 487 miles [783.8 km]<1> to the north of the Colonial Village that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lancaster County community of Colonial Village.
Tennessee
Hamilton County
This Colonial Village is located in Hamilton County and lies 521 miles [838.5 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Colonial Village that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Colonial Village.
Knox County
This Colonial Village is located in Knox County and lies 554 miles [891.6 km] to the north of the Colonial Village that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Knox County community of Colonial Village.
Rutherford County
This Colonial Village is located in Rutherford County and lies 602 miles [968.8 km] to the north northwest of the Colonial Village that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Colonial Village.
Virginia
Arlington County
This Colonial Village is located in Arlington County and lies 802 miles [1,290.7 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Colonial Village that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Arlington County community of Colonial Village.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Colonial Village ...
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 Colonial Village to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Colonial Village and extending to:
Tampa, which is the Seat of Hillsborough County, lies 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> to the west southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Colonial Village to Tampa, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
Tallahassee, which is the State Capital of Florida, lies 211 miles [339.6 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 12 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 804 miles [1,293.9 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 32 days and walking would take 46 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,598 miles [10,618.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,266 miles [11,693.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,166 miles [8,313.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Colonial Village) 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Colonial Village 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>
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 Colonial Village 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 Colonial Village. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 28.0379, Longitude: -82.0989 In this case, the coordinates for Colonial Village have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.646 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.026 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.758 degrees.