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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 Marble Hill, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Marble Hill 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 Marble Hill:
    • 38.592562, -85.450515
    • 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 Marble 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 Jefferson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Jefferson County
    • Since Marble Hill is near Clark County and also Trimble County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Clark County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Trimble 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 Marble Hill

Communities Also Named Marble Hill ...

We found twelve communities that are also named Marble Hill.

There is one other community in Indiana that is also named Marble Hill.

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

  • Communities Located In Indiana ...
    • Gibson 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 Indiana community of Marble Hill [Gibson County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Pickens County
      • This Marble Hill is located in Pickens County and lies 293 miles [471.5 km]<2> to the south southeast of the Marble Hill that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pickens County community of Marble Hill.
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore County
      • This Marble Hill is located in Baltimore County and lies 475 miles [764.4 km]<2> to the east of the Marble Hill that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Marble Hill.
      • Howard County
      • This Marble Hill is located in Howard County and lies 469 miles [754.8 km] to the east of the Marble Hill that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Howard County community of Marble Hill.
    • Missouri
      • Bollinger County
      • This Marble Hill is located in Bollinger County and lies 262 miles [421.6 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Marble Hill that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bollinger County community of Marble Hill.
    • New Jersey
      • Warren County
      • This Marble Hill is located in Warren County and lies 579 miles [931.8 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Marble Hill that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Marble Hill.
    • New York
      • Bronx 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 New York community of Marble Hill [Bronx County].
      • New York 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 New York community of Marble Hill [New York County].
    • Nova Scotia
      • This Marble Hill lies 1,318 miles [2,121.1 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Marble Hill that is located in Jefferson County.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Somerset 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 Pennsylvania community of Marble Hill [Somerset County].
    • Tennessee
      • Blount County
      • This Marble Hill is located in Blount County and lies 211 miles [339.6 km]<2> to the south southeast of the Marble Hill that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blount County community of Marble Hill.
      • Moore County
      • This Marble Hill is located in Moore County and lies 238 miles [383 km] to the south southwest of the Marble Hill that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Moore County community of Marble Hill.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Marble 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.

  • Germany
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Germany is located in Clark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Germany
  • Greenhaven
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Greenhaven is located in Oldham County (KY)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenhaven
  • Halls Landing
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Halls Landing is located in Oldham County (KY)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halls Landing
  • Hibernia
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Hibernia is located in Clark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hibernia
  • Kent
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Kent is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent
  • Marysville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Marysville is located in Clark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marysville
  • Miles Point
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Miles Point is located in Clark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miles Point
  • Monitor
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Monitor is located in Trimble County (KY)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monitor
  • Mount Pleasant
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Mount Pleasant is located in Trimble County (KY)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Otto
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Otto is located in Clark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otto
    • Rolling Hills
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Rolling Hills is located in Clark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Hills
    • Skylight
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Skylight is located in Oldham County (KY)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skylight
    • Sulphur
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Swanville
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Swanville is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swanville
    • Trout
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Trout is located in Trimble County (KY)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trout

How Far From Marble Hill 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 Marble Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Madison, which is the Seat of Jefferson County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the north northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Marble Hill to Madison, 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.
  • Indianapolis, which is the State Capital of Indiana, lies 89 miles [143.2 km] to the north northwest (NNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 453 miles [729 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 18 days and walking would take 26 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,256 miles [10,068.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,980 miles [11,233.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,856 miles [7,815 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 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 Marble 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.
<2>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Marble Hill) 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 Marble 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 Marble Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.5926, Longitude: -85.4505       In this case, the coordinates for Marble Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.021 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.246 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.473 degrees.