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 Beacon Hill:
34.457046, -88.975896
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 Beacon Hill
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 Union County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found 21 communities that are also named Beacon Hill.
Within Mississippi, the name Beacon Hill is unique.
Beyond Mississippi, we know of 21 communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these 21 communities, twenty are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Colorado
Teller County
This Beacon Hill is located in Teller County and lies 943 miles [1,517.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Teller County community of Beacon Hill.
Delaware
New Castle County
This Beacon Hill is located in New Castle County and lies 827 miles [1,330.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of Beacon Hill.
Florida
Gulf County
This Beacon Hill is located in Gulf County and lies 376 miles [605.1 km]<1> to the southeast of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gulf County community of Beacon Hill.
Hillsborough County
This Beacon Hill is located in Hillsborough County and lies 589 miles [947.9 km] to the southeast of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Beacon Hill.
Georgia
Newton County
This Beacon Hill is located in Newton County and lies 303 miles [487.6 km]<1> to the east of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Newton County community of Beacon Hill.
Illinois
Cook 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 Beacon Hill [Cook County].
Lake County
This Beacon Hill is located in Lake County and lies 537 miles [864.2 km]<1> to the north of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lake County community of Beacon Hill.
Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish
This Beacon Hill is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 304 miles [489.2 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of Beacon Hill.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Beacon Hill is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 762 miles [1,226.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Beacon Hill.
Baltimore County
This Beacon Hill is located in Baltimore County and lies 763 miles [1,227.9 km] to the east northeast of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Beacon Hill.
Massachusetts
Suffolk County
This Beacon Hill is located in Suffolk County and lies 1,108 miles [1,783.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Suffolk County community of Beacon Hill.
Michigan
Houghton County
This Beacon Hill is located in Houghton County and lies 875 miles [1,408.2 km]<1> to the north of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Houghton County community of Beacon Hill.
New York
Saratoga County
This Beacon Hill is located in Saratoga County and lies 1,011 miles [1,627 km]<1> to the northeast of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saratoga County community of Beacon Hill.
Ohio
Butler 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 Ohio community of Beacon Hill [Butler County].
Geauga County
This Beacon Hill is located in Geauga County and lies 632 miles [1,017.1 km]<1> to the northeast of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Geauga County community of Beacon Hill.
Saskatchewan
This Beacon Hill lies 1,697 miles [2,731.1 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
South Carolina
Greenville County
This Beacon Hill is located in Greenville County and lies 381 miles [613.2 km]<1> to the east of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenville County community of Beacon Hill.
Texas
Bexar 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 Texas community of Beacon Hill [Bexar County].
Virginia
Goochland County
This Beacon Hill is located in Goochland County and lies 663 miles [1,067 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Goochland County community of Beacon Hill.
Washington
Cowlitz County
This Beacon Hill is located in Cowlitz County and lies 1,942 miles [3,125.3 km]<1> to the northwest of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cowlitz County community of Beacon Hill.
King County
This Beacon Hill is located in King County and lies 1,938 miles [3,118.9 km] to the northwest of the Beacon Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the King County community of Beacon Hill.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Beacon Hill ...
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.
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 Beacon Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Beacon Hill and extending to:
Jackson, which is the State Capital of Mississippi, lies 164 miles [263.9 km]<1> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could drive a straight line from Beacon Hill to Jackson, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 10 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 7 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 728 miles [1,171.6 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 29 days and walking would take 42 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,595 miles [10,613.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,313 miles [11,769.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,189 miles [8,350.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Beacon Hill) 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Beacon Hill 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 Beacon Hill 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 Beacon Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.4570, Longitude: -88.9759 In this case, the coordinates for Beacon Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.067 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.025 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.998 degrees.