Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Pleasant Hills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Pleasant Hills and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Pleasant Hills
- 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 Pleasant Hills:
- 42.455652, -71.013384
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Pleasant Hills
- 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 Essex County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Essex County
- Since Pleasant Hills is near Suffolk County and also Middlesex County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Suffolk County
- eBird sighting report for Middlesex 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Pleasant Hills ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Pleasant Hills.
Within Massachusetts, the name Pleasant Hills is unique.
Beyond Massachusetts, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Stone 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 Arkansas community of Pleasant Hills [Stone County].
- California
- Contra Costa 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 California community of Pleasant Hills [Contra Costa County].
- Delaware
- New Castle County
- This Pleasant Hills is located in New Castle County and lies 305 miles [490.8 km]<2> to the southwest of the Pleasant Hills that is located in Essex County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of Pleasant Hills.
- Georgia
- Oconee County
- This Pleasant Hills is located in Oconee County and lies 898 miles [1,445.2 km]<2> to the southwest of the Pleasant Hills that is located in Essex County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oconee County community of Pleasant Hills.
- Paulding County
- This Pleasant Hills is located in Paulding County and lies 951 miles [1,530.5 km] to the southwest of the Pleasant Hills that is located in Essex County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Paulding County community of Pleasant Hills.
- Illinois
- Cook 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 Illinois community of Pleasant Hills [Cook County].
- Louisiana
- East Baton Rouge Parish
- This Pleasant Hills is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 1,380 miles [2,220.9 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Pleasant Hills that is located in Essex County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of Pleasant Hills.
- Maryland
- Harford County
- This Pleasant Hills is located in Harford County and lies 347 miles [558.4 km]<2> to the southwest of the Pleasant Hills that is located in Essex County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Pleasant Hills.
- North Carolina
- Davidson County
- This Pleasant Hills is located in Davidson County and lies 673 miles [1,083.1 km]<2> to the southwest of the Pleasant Hills that is located in Essex County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davidson County community of Pleasant Hills.
- Nova Scotia
- This Pleasant Hills lies 410 miles [659.8 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Pleasant Hills that is located in Essex County.
- Ohio
- Hamilton County
- This Pleasant Hills is located in Hamilton County and lies 739 miles [1,189.3 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Pleasant Hills that is located in Essex County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Pleasant Hills.
- Pennsylvania
- Allegheny County
- This Pleasant Hills is located in Allegheny County and lies 485 miles [780.5 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Pleasant Hills that is located in Essex County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allegheny County community of Pleasant Hills.
- Dauphin County
- This Pleasant Hills is located in Dauphin County and lies 334 miles [537.5 km] to the west southwest of the Pleasant Hills that is located in Essex County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dauphin County community of Pleasant Hills.
- South Carolina
- Charleston County
- This Pleasant Hills is located in Charleston County and lies 819 miles [1,318.1 km]<2> to the southwest of the Pleasant Hills that is located in Essex County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charleston County community of Pleasant Hills.
- Tennessee
- Knox County
- This Pleasant Hills is located in Knox County and lies 824 miles [1,326.1 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Pleasant Hills that is located in Essex County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Knox County community of Pleasant Hills.
- Maury County
- This Pleasant Hills is located in Maury County and lies 982 miles [1,580.4 km] to the west southwest of the Pleasant Hills that is located in Essex County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Maury County community of Pleasant Hills.
- Utah
- Davis County
- This Pleasant Hills is located in Davis County and lies 2,090 miles [3,363.5 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Pleasant Hills that is located in Essex County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davis County community of Pleasant Hills.
- Arkansas
Curious and Interesting Names Near Pleasant Hills ...
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.
- Crescent Beach
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crescent Beach have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Beach
- Crescent Beach is located in Suffolk County
- Everett
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Everett
- Everett is located in Middlesex County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 46,107 people
- Farm Hill
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest) - Fells
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west) - Greenwood
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest) - Little Nahant
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Nahant have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Nahant
- Little Nahant is located in Essex County
- Lynn
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynn
- Lynn is located in Essex County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 94,539 people
- Maplewood
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest) - Oak Grove
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest) - Wyoming
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
How Far From Pleasant Hills 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 Pleasant Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Pleasant Hills and extending to:
- Salem, which is the Seat of Essex County, lies just to the Northeast.
- Boston, which is the State Capital of Massachusetts, lies just to the south southwest (SSW).
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 399 miles [642.1 km]<2> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from Pleasant Hills to White House, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 23 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 16 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,498 miles [8,848.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,205 miles [9,986 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,081 miles [6,567.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Pleasant Hills. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for State of Massachusetts: https://www.mass.gov/
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 Pleasant Hills 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 from Point A (ie- Pleasant Hills) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pleasant Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.4557, Longitude: -71.0134 In this case, the coordinates for Pleasant Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <3> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <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 Pleasant Hills to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 303.933 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 299.54 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.501 degrees. |