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 Prospect Heights:
27.938100, -82.382400
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 Prospect 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 eight communities that are also named Prospect Heights.
Within Florida, the name Prospect Heights is unique.
Beyond Florida, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Colorado
Fremont County
This Prospect Heights is located in Fremont County and lies 1,500 miles [2,414 km]<1> to the northwest of the Prospect Heights that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fremont County community of Prospect Heights.
Connecticut
Hartford County
Although located in Hartford County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hartford County community of Prospect Heights.
Illinois
Cook County
This Prospect Heights is located in Cook County and lies 1,026 miles [1,651.2 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Prospect Heights that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Prospect Heights.
Maryland
Harford County
This Prospect Heights is located in Harford County and lies 874 miles [1,406.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Prospect Heights that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Prospect Heights.
New Jersey
Mercer County
This Prospect Heights is located in Mercer County and lies 954 miles [1,535.3 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Prospect Heights that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mercer County community of Prospect Heights.
New York
Rensselaer County
This Prospect Heights is located in Rensselaer County and lies 1,123 miles [1,807.3 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Prospect Heights that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rensselaer County community of Prospect Heights.
Pennsylvania
Northampton 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 Prospect Heights [Northampton County].
Utah
Weber County
This Prospect Heights is located in Weber County and lies 1,901 miles [3,059.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Prospect Heights that is located in Hillsborough County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weber County community of Prospect Heights.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Prospect 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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Prospect Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Prospect Heights and extending to:
Tallahassee, which is the State Capital of Florida, lies 207 miles [333.1 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Prospect 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 816 miles [1,313.2 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 7,284 miles [11,722.5 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 '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- Prospect 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 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 Prospect 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 Prospect 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 Prospect Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 27.9381, Longitude: -82.3824 In this case, the coordinates for Prospect Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.787 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.176 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.869 degrees.