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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 Hill View, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hill View 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 Hill View:
    • 35.440439, -77.667196
    • 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 Hill View
  • 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 Greene County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Greene County
    • Since Hill View is near Lenoir County and also Wayne County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lenoir County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Wayne 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 Hill View

Communities Also Named Hill View ...

We found one communities that are also named Hill View.

Within North Carolina, the name Hill View is unique.

Beyond North Carolina, there is another community also named Hill View in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • New York
      • Warren 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 New York community of Hill View [Warren County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Hill View ...

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.

  • Branchwood
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Branchwood is located in Lenoir County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Branchwood
  • Fountain Hill
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Fountain Hill is located in Lenoir County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountain Hill
  • Fourway
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Fourway is located in Greene County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourway
  • Herrings Crossroads
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Herrings Crossroads is located in Greene County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herrings Crossroads
  • Hugo
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Hugo is located in Lenoir County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hugo
  • Hullwood
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Hullwood is located in Lenoir County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hullwood
  • Institute
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Institute is located in Lenoir County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Institute
  • Jason
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Jason is located in Greene County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jason
  • Lizzie
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Lizzie is located in Greene County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lizzie
  • Parkstown
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Parkstown is located in Wayne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkstown
  • Parrots
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Parrots is located in Lenoir County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parrots
  • Shadetown
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Shadetown is located in Lenoir County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shadetown
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Snow Hill
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Trinity Woods
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Trinity Woods is located in Lenoir County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trinity Woods
    • Wheat Swamp
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Wheat Swamp is located in Lenoir County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheat Swamp
    • Willow Creek
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Willow Creek is located in Greene County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Creek

How Far From Hill View to ...

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Hill View and extending to:

  • Snow Hill, which is the Seat of Greene County, lies just to the Northwest.
  • Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 59 miles [95 km]<3> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could walk a straight line from Hill View to Raleigh, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 241 miles [387.9 km] to the north (N). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 14 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,072 miles [9,771.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,763 miles [10,884 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,646 miles [7,477 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 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 Hill View 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Hill View) 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 Hill View 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 Hill View. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.4404, Longitude: -77.6672       In this case, the coordinates for Hill View have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.41 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.509 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.215 degrees.