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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).

When in Long Pond, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Long Pond and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • Astronomy & Satellites ...
    • 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 Long Pond:
    • 27.964700, -82.262600
    • 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 Long Pond
  • 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:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Hillsborough County
    • Since Long Pond is near Polk County and also Pasco County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Polk County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Pasco County
  • Waymarking ...
    • Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Long Pond

Communities Also Named Long Pond ...

We found six communities that are also named Long Pond.

Within Florida, the name Long Pond is unique.

Beyond Florida, we know of six communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, five are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Montgomery County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Long Pond [Montgomery County].
      • Wheeler County
      • This Long Pond is located in Wheeler County and lies 284 miles [457.1 km]<2> to the north of the Long Pond that is located in Hillsborough County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wheeler County community of Long Pond.
    • Maine
      • Somerset County
      • This Long Pond is located in Somerset County and lies 1,389 miles [2,235.4 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Long Pond that is located in Hillsborough County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Somerset County community of Long Pond.
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Newfoundland and Labrador community of Long Pond.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Berks County
      • This Long Pond is located in Berks County and lies 926 miles [1,490.3 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Long Pond that is located in Hillsborough County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Berks County community of Long Pond.
      • Monroe County
      • This Long Pond is located in Monroe County and lies 982 miles [1,580.4 km] to the north northeast of the Long Pond that is located in Hillsborough County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monroe County community of Long Pond.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Long Pond ...

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.

  • Angel Run
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Angel Run is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angel Run
  • Big Pines
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Big Pines is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Pines
  • Bonterra
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Bonterra is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonterra
  • Camelot
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Camelot is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camelot
  • Carriage Crossing
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Carriage Crossing is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carriage Crossing
  • Cash Acres
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Cash Acres is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cash Acres
  • Chancey
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Chancey is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chancey
  • Chestnut Forest
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Chestnut Forest is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Forest
  • Citrus Wood
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Citrus Wood is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Citrus Wood
  • Diamond Hill
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Diamond Hill is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond Hill
  • Eden Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Eden Park is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden Park
  • Eleven Mile Hill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Eleven Mile Hill is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eleven Mile Hill
  • Continue List   (44 more) ...
    • Gallagher Lakes
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Gallagher Lakes is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallagher Lakes
    • Gallagher Meadows
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Gallagher Meadows is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallagher Meadows
    • Garden Oaks
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Garden Oaks is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden Oaks
    • Greenewood
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Greenewood is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenewood
    • Grove Park
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Grove Park is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grove Park
    • Harder Oaks
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Harder Oaks is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harder Oaks
    • Heritage Crest
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Heritage Crest is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heritage Crest
    • Hickory Hill
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Hickory Hill is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Hill
    • Hillcrest
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Hillcrest is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillcrest
    • Hillside
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Hillside is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside
    • Hollowtree
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Hollowtree is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollowtree
    • Hunters Cove
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Hunters Cove is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters Cove
    • Jacobs Place
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Jacobs Place is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacobs Place
    • Jerrys
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jerrys is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerrys
    • Jess Walden Oaks
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Jess Walden Oaks is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jess Walden Oaks
    • Kings Mill
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Kings Mill is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Mill
    • Kings Row
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Kings Row is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Row
    • Kingstowne Place
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Kingstowne Place is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingstowne Place
    • Kingsway Downs
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Kingsway Downs is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsway Downs
    • Kingsway Gardens
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Kingsway Gardens is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsway Gardens
    • Kingsway Heights
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Kingsway Heights is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsway Heights
    • Kingsway Oaks
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Kingsway Oaks is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsway Oaks
    • Lake View
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Lake View is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake View
    • Lake Weeks
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Lake Weeks is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Weeks
    • Lakeview Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Lakeview Village is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview Village
    • Lawndale
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Lawndale is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawndale
    • Leonard
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Leonard is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leonard
    • Mango
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Mango Groves
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Mango Groves is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mango Groves
    • Mango Hills
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Mango Hills is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mango Hills
    • Martin
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Martin is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin
    • Mirror Crest
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Mirror Crest is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mirror Crest
    • Mirror Lake
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Mirror Lake is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mirror Lake
    • Orangewood
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Orangewood is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orangewood
    • Parsons Reserve
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Parsons Reserve is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parsons Reserve
    • Ravenwood
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Ravenwood is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravenwood
    • Rolling Oaks
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Rolling Oaks is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Oaks
    • Shadow Bay
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Shadow Bay is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shadow Bay
    • Shady Stables
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Shady Stables is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Stables
    • Shangri La
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Shangri La is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shangri La
    • Tangelo
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Tangelo is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tangelo
    • Timber Creek
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Timber Creek is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timber Creek
    • Timber Pond
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Timber Pond is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timber Pond
    • Whisper Lake
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Whisper Lake is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whisper Lake

How Far From Long Pond to ...

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 Long Pond to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Long Pond and extending to:

  • Tampa, which is the Seat of Hillsborough County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the west. If you could walk a straight line from Long Pond to Tampa, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
  • Tallahassee, which is the State Capital of Florida, lies 209 miles [336.4 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 812 miles [1,306.8 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,609 miles [10,636.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,277 miles [11,711.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,177 miles [8,331.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Long Pond 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.
<2>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Long Pond) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Long Pond 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 Long Pond. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 27.9647, Longitude: -82.2626       In this case, the coordinates for Long Pond have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.726 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.109 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.825 degrees.