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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 Harwood Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Harwood Park and the surrounding area.
- 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 Harwood Park:
- 39.193719, -76.737749
- 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 Harwood Park
- 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 Howard County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Howard County
- Since Harwood Park is near Anne Arundel County and also Baltimore County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Anne Arundel County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Baltimore 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 Harwood Park
Communities Also Named Harwood Park ...
We found one communities that are also named Harwood Park.
Within Maryland, the name Harwood Park is unique.
Beyond Maryland, there is another community also named Harwood Park in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware 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 Harwood Park [Delaware County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Harwood Park ...
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.
- Bonnie Brae
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Bonnie Brae is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonnie Brae
- Cedars
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Cedars is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedars
- Champion Forest
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Champion Forest is located in Anne Arundel County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Champion Forest
- Elkridge
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Elkridge Heights
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Elkridge Heights is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkridge Heights
- Homeland Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Homeland Park is located in Anne Arundel County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homeland Park
- Jessup
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Lawyers Hill
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Lawyers Hill is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawyers Hill
- Marble Hill
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Marble Hill is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marble Hill
- Orange Grove ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Orange Grove is located in Baltimore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orange Grove
- Pleasant View
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Pleasant View is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant View
- Provinces
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Provinces is located in Anne Arundel County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Provinces
- Continue List (10 more) ...
- Quail Ridge
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Quail Ridge is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Ridge
- Relay
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Relay is located in Baltimore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Relay
- Ridgeview
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Ridgeview is located in Anne Arundel County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgeview
- Rockburn Commons
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Rockburn Commons is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockburn Commons
- Sandalwood
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Sandalwood is located in Anne Arundel County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandalwood
- Springwood
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Springwood is located in Anne Arundel County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springwood
- Stony Run
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Stony Run is located in Anne Arundel County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Run
- Timber Ridge
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Timber Ridge is located in Anne Arundel County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timber Ridge
- Timberview
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Timberview is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timberview
- Woodland Village
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Woodland Village is located in Howard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodland Village
How Far From Harwood Park 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 Harwood Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Harwood Park and extending to:
- Ellicott City, which is the Seat of Howard County, lies just to the North Northwest.
- Annapolis, which is the State Capital of Maryland, lies 19 miles [30.6 km]<3> to the southeast (SE). If you could walk a straight line from Harwood Park to Annapolis, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 hours.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest (SW). The buggy would take most of a day and walking would take just about two full days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,872 miles [9,450.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,578 miles [10,586.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,455 miles [7,169.6 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 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 Harwood Park 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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- Harwood Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Harwood Park 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 Harwood Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.1937, Longitude: -76.7377 In this case, the coordinates for Harwood Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.693 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.262 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.473 degrees. |
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