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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 Blue Hill, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Blue Hill 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 Blue Hill:
    • 31.762942, -90.857602
    • 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 Blue 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 Jefferson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Jefferson County
    • Since Blue Hill is near Claiborne County and also Copiah County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Claiborne County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Copiah 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 Blue Hill

Communities Also Named Blue Hill ...

We found eleven communities that are also named Blue Hill.

Within Mississippi, the name Blue Hill is unique.

Beyond Mississippi, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Pulaski County
      • This Blue Hill is located in Pulaski County and lies 231 miles [371.8 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Blue Hill that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pulaski County community of Blue Hill.
    • Kansas
      • Mitchell County
      • This Blue Hill is located in Mitchell County and lies 669 miles [1,076.7 km]<1> to the northwest of the Blue Hill that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mitchell County community of Blue Hill.
    • Maine
      • Hancock County
      • This Blue Hill is located in Hancock County and lies 1,484 miles [2,388.3 km]<1> to the northeast of the Blue Hill that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hancock County community of Blue Hill.
    • Maryland
      • Washington County
      • This Blue Hill is located in Washington County and lies 895 miles [1,440.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the Blue Hill that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Blue Hill.
    • Minnesota
      • Blue Hill #
      • This community is historichttp://www.waymarking.com/wm/search.aspx?f=1&lat=31.762942&lon=-90.857602&t=6 and we have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for Blue Hill.
    • Nebraska
      • Webster County
      • This Blue Hill is located in Webster County and lies 727 miles [1,170 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Blue Hill that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Webster County community of Blue Hill.
    • New Brunswick
      • This Blue Hill lies 1,595 miles [2,566.9 km]<1> to the northeast of the Blue Hill that is located in Jefferson County.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Delaware County
      • This Blue Hill is located in Delaware County and lies 1,030 miles [1,657.6 km]<1> to the northeast of the Blue Hill that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Delaware County community of Blue Hill.
      • Snyder 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 Pennsylvania community of Blue Hill [Snyder County].
    • Tennessee
      • Warren County
      • This Blue Hill is located in Warren County and lies 398 miles [640.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Blue Hill that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Blue Hill.
    • Wyoming
      • Natrona County
      • This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Blue Hill [Natrona County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Blue 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.

  • Allen
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Allen is located in Copiah County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allen
  • Bonus
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Bonus is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonus
  • Dennis Crossroads
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Dennis Crossroads is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dennis Crossroads
  • Elmo
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Elmo is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmo
  • Gordon
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Gordon is located in Claiborne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gordon
  • Malcolm ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Malcolm is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malcolm
  • Pleasant Hill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Pleasant Hill is located in Copiah County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill
  • Red Lick
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Red Lick is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Lick
  • Shankstown ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Shankstown is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shankstown
  • Union Church
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Union Church is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Church
  • Violet
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Violet is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Violet

How Far From Blue Hill 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 Blue Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Fayette, which is the Seat of Jefferson County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the west southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Blue Hill to Fayette, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
  • Jackson, which is the State Capital of Mississippi, lies 54 miles [86.9 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take over two days and walking would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 919 miles [1,479 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 36 days and walking would take 53 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,804 miles [10,950 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,518 miles [12,099 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,394 miles [8,680.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

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- Blue 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 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 Blue 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>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Blue Hill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Blue 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 Blue Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.7629, Longitude: -90.8576       In this case, the coordinates for Blue Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.002 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.747 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.256 degrees.