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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 College View, we use the following websites to find information relevant to College View 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 College View:
    • 39.043165, -77.065256
    • 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 College View
  • 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 Montgomery County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Montgomery County
    • Since College View is near Prince George's County and also Arlington County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Prince George's County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Arlington 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 College View

Communities Also Named College View ...

We found seven communities that are also named College View.

Within Maryland, the name College View is unique.

Beyond Maryland, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Denver County
      • This College View is located in Denver County and lies 1,487 miles [2,393.1 km]<1> to the west of the College View that is located in Montgomery County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Denver County community of College View.
    • Illinois
      • Will 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 Illinois community of College View [Will County].
    • Mississippi
      • Oktibbeha County
      • This College View is located in Oktibbeha County and lies 757 miles [1,218.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the College View that is located in Montgomery County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oktibbeha County community of College View.
    • Nebraska
      • Lancaster County
      • This College View is located in Lancaster County and lies 1,042 miles [1,676.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the College View that is located in Montgomery County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lancaster County community of College View.
    • North Carolina
      • Pitt County
      • This College View is located in Pitt County and lies 237 miles [381.4 km]<1> to the south of the College View that is located in Montgomery County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pitt County community of College View.
      • Wake 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 North Carolina community of College View [Wake County].
    • Tennessee
      • Greene County
      • This College View is located in Greene County and lies 369 miles [593.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the College View that is located in Montgomery County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greene County community of College View.

Curious and Interesting Names Near College View ...

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.

  • Chestnut Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Chestnut Hills is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Hills
  • Chestnut Ridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Chestnut Ridge is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Ridge
  • Chevy Chase View
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Chevy Chase View is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chevy Chase View
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 979 people
  • Fairway
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Fairway is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairway
  • Forest Glen
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Forest Glen is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Glen
  • Forest Grove ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Forest Grove is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Grove
  • Foxhall
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Foxhall is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxhall
  • Glen Haven
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Glen Haven is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Haven
  • Glenallen
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Glenallen is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenallen
  • Glenview
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Glenview is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenview
  • Harmony Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Harmony Hills is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Hills
  • Hermitage Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Hermitage Park is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hermitage Park
  • Continue List   (9 more) ...
    • Holiday Park
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Holiday Park is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Park
    • Homewood
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Homewood is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homewood
    • Lutes
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Lutes is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lutes
    • Randolph Hills
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Randolph Hills is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph Hills
    • Rock Creek Hills
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Rock Creek Hills is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek Hills
    • Rock Creek Palisades
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Rock Creek Palisades is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek Palisades
    • Springwood
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Springwood is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springwood
    • Stoney Brook
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Stoney Brook is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoney Brook
    • Woodside Forest
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Woodside Forest is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodside Forest

How Far From College View 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 College View to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Rockville, which is the Seat of Montgomery County, lies just to the West Northwest.
  • Annapolis, which is the State Capital of Maryland, lies 31 miles [49.9 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could walk a straight line from College View to Annapolis, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 10 miles [16.1 km] to the south (S). The buggy would take a little over three hours and walking would take four to five hours.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,892 miles [9,482.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,598 miles [10,618.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,475 miles [7,201.8 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- College View) 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 College View 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 College View 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 College View. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.0432, Longitude: -77.0653       In this case, the coordinates for College View have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.897 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.47 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.67 degrees.