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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 Sherwood Hills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Sherwood 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 Sherwood Hills:
    • 39.487606, -76.626359
    • 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 Sherwood 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 Baltimore County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Baltimore County
    • Since Sherwood Hills is near Harford County and also Baltimore City, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Harford County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Baltimore City
  • 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 Sherwood Hills

Communities Also Named Sherwood Hills ...

We found four communities that are also named Sherwood Hills.

Within Maryland, the name Sherwood Hills is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Jefferson County
      • This Sherwood Hills is located in Jefferson County and lies 702 miles [1,129.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Sherwood Hills that is located in Baltimore County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Sherwood Hills.
    • Arkansas
      • Hot Spring 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 Arkansas community of Sherwood Hills [Hot Spring County].
    • Utah
      • Salt Lake County
      • This Sherwood Hills is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,848 miles [2,974.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Sherwood Hills that is located in Baltimore County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Sherwood Hills.
    • Virginia
      • Colonial Heights City
      • This Sherwood Hills is located in Colonial Heights City and lies 158 miles [254.3 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Sherwood Hills that is located in Baltimore County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Colonial Heights City community of Sherwood Hills.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Sherwood 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.

  • Chapel Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Chapel Hill is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel Hill
  • Chapel Ridge
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Chapel Ridge is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel Ridge
  • Cockeysville
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Cross Creek
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Cross Creek is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Creek
  • Dun Rovin
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Dun Rovin is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dun Rovin
  • Friends View
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Friends View is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friends View
  • Hillendale Heights
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Hillendale Heights is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillendale Heights
  • Hillside Hunt
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Hillside Hunt is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside Hunt
  • Hunt Ridge
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Hunt Ridge is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunt Ridge
  • Hunt Valley
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Hunters Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Hunters Hill is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters Hill
  • Hunters Run
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Hunters Run is located in Baltimore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters Run
  • Continue List   (11 more) ...
    • Ivy Hill
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Ivy Hill is located in Baltimore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivy Hill
    • Marble Hill
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Marble Hill is located in Baltimore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marble Hill
    • Mays Chapel
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Mays Chapel is located in Baltimore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mays Chapel
    • Oregon
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Oregon is located in Baltimore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oregon
    • Overlook
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Overlook is located in Baltimore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overlook
    • Pot Spring
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Pot Spring is located in Baltimore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pot Spring
    • Sparks
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Sunnybrook
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Sunnybrook is located in Baltimore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnybrook
    • Texas
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Texas is located in Baltimore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Texas
    • Valley Crest
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Valley Crest is located in Baltimore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Crest
    • Western Run
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Western Run is located in Baltimore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Western Run

How Far From Sherwood 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 Sherwood Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Towson, which is the Seat of Baltimore County, lies just to the South.
  • Annapolis, which is the State Capital of Maryland, lies 35 miles [56.3 km]<1> to the south (S). If you could walk a straight line from Sherwood Hills to Annapolis, with an average speed<4> 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 about two full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 46 miles [74 km] to the south southwest (SSW). 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 shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,855 miles [9,422.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,562 miles [10,560.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,438 miles [7,142.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

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- Sherwood 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Sherwood 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'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 Sherwood 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 Sherwood Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.4876, Longitude: -76.6264       In this case, the coordinates for Sherwood Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.607 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.209 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.309 degrees.