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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 Fremont Hills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Fremont Hills 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 Fremont Hills:
    • 39.329826, -77.272762
    • 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 Fremont 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 Frederick County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Frederick County
    • Since Fremont Hills is near Montgomery County and also Carroll County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Montgomery County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Carroll 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 Fremont Hills

Communities Also Named Fremont Hills ...

We found two communities that are also named Fremont Hills.

Within Maryland, the name Fremont Hills is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Missouri
      • Christian County
      • This Fremont Hills is located in Christian County and lies 879 miles [1,414.6 km]<1> to the west of the Fremont Hills that is located in Frederick County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Christian County community of Fremont Hills.
    • New York
      • Onondaga 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 New York community of Fremont Hills [Onondaga County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Fremont 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.

  • Big Woods Estates
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Big Woods Estates is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Woods Estates
  • Englandtowne
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Englandtowne is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Englandtowne
  • Fountain Mills
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Fountain Mills is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountain Mills
  • Friendship
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Friendship is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
  • Gently Savage
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Gently Savage is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gently Savage
  • Green Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Green Hills is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Hills
  • Green Valley
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Green Valley is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Valley
  • Hickory Hill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Hickory Hill is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Hill
  • Highview
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Highview is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highview
  • Land of Promise
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Land of Promise is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Land of Promise
  • Meadowbrook
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Meadowbrook is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowbrook
  • Pleasant Grove
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Pleasant Grove is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Grove
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Quail Run
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Quail Run is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Run
    • Rolling Green
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Rolling Green is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Green
    • Stonelake
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Stonelake is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonelake
    • Sugarloaf Overlook
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Sugarloaf Overlook is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugarloaf Overlook
    • Sunnybrook Farms
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Sunnybrook Farms is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnybrook Farms
    • Tranquility
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Tranquility is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tranquility
    • Wolf Den Spring
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Wolf Den Spring is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolf Den Spring

How Far From Fremont Hills to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Fremont Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Frederick, which is the Seat of Frederick County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Fremont Hills to Frederick, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
  • Annapolis, which is the State Capital of Maryland, lies 48 miles [77.2 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take most of two days and walking would take about three full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 32 miles [51.5 km] to the south southeast (SSE). Driving would take less than an hour, a buggy would take just over a day and walking would take most of two days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,889 miles [9,477.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,596 miles [10,615.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,473 miles [7,198.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fremont Hills) 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 Fremont 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.
<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 Fremont Hills 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 Fremont Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.3298, Longitude: -77.2728       In this case, the coordinates for Fremont Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.001 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.633 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.647 degrees.