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 Highland Heights:
27.972800, -82.422900
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 Highland Heights
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 twelve communities that are also named Highland Heights.
Within Florida, the name Highland Heights is unique.
Beyond Florida, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Lowndes County
This Highland Heights is located in Lowndes County and lies 207 miles [333.1 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Highland Heights that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lowndes County community of Highland Heights.
Kentucky
Campbell County
This Highland Heights is located in Campbell County and lies 772 miles [1,242.4 km]<1> to the north of the Highland Heights that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Campbell County community of Highland Heights.
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
This Highland Heights is located in Cuyahoga County and lies 939 miles [1,511.2 km]<1> to the north of the Highland Heights that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cuyahoga County community of Highland Heights.
Pennsylvania
Delaware 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 Pennsylvania community of Highland Heights [Delaware County].
Tennessee
Davidson 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 Tennessee community of Highland Heights [Davidson County].
Giles County
This Highland Heights is located in Giles County and lies 567 miles [912.5 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Highland Heights that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Giles County community of Highland Heights.
Maury County
This Highland Heights is located in Maury County and lies 591 miles [951.1 km] to the north northwest of the Highland Heights that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Maury County community of Highland Heights.
Shelby County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Highland Heights [Shelby County].
Wilson County
This Highland Heights is located in Wilson County and lies 618 miles [994.6 km] to the north northwest of the Highland Heights that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wilson County community of Highland Heights.
Texas
Harris County
This Highland Heights is located in Harris County and lies 796 miles [1,281 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Highland Heights that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Highland Heights.
Virginia
Northampton County
This Highland Heights is located in Northampton County and lies 763 miles [1,227.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Highland Heights that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Northampton County community of Highland Heights.
Washington
Grays Harbor County
This Highland Heights is located in Grays Harbor County and lies 2,600 miles [4,184.3 km]<1> to the northwest of the Highland Heights that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grays Harbor County community of Highland Heights.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Highland Heights ...
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 Highland Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Highland Heights and extending to:
Tallahassee, which is the State Capital of Florida, lies 203 miles [326.7 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Highland Heights to Tallahassee, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take a little over three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 12 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 8 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 815 miles [1,311.6 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 32 days and walking would take 47 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,616 miles [10,647.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,285 miles [11,724.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,184 miles [8,342.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<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- Highland Heights) 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 Highland Heights 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 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 Highland Heights 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 Highland Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 27.9728, Longitude: -82.4229 In this case, the coordinates for Highland Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.811 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.209 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.875 degrees.