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 North Hills:
35.840151, -78.652226
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 North 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 Wake County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found 25 communities that are also named North Hills.
There are two communities within North Carolina that are also named North Hills.
Beyond North Carolina, we know of 23 communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In North Carolina ...
Guilford County
This North Hills is located in Guilford County and lies 69 miles [111 km]<1> to the west northwest of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Guilford County community of North Hills.
Rockingham County
This North Hills is located in Rockingham County and lies 68 miles [109.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockingham County community of North Hills.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Lee County
This North Hills is located in Lee County and lies 441 miles [709.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lee County community of North Hills.
California
Los Angeles County
This North Hills is located in Los Angeles County and lies 2,238 miles [3,601.7 km]<1> to the west of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Los Angeles County community of North Hills.
Delaware
New Castle County
This North Hills is located in New Castle County and lies 321 miles [516.6 km]<1> to the north northeast of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of North Hills.
Georgia
Floyd County
This North Hills is located in Floyd County and lies 382 miles [614.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Floyd County community of North Hills.
Illinois
Lake 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 North Hills [Lake County].
Maryland
Cecil County
This North Hills is located in Cecil County and lies 302 miles [486 km]<1> to the north northeast of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cecil County community of North Hills.
Harford County
This North Hills is located in Harford County and lies 288 miles [463.5 km] to the north northeast of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of North Hills.
New York
Nassau County
This North Hills is located in Nassau County and lies 434 miles [698.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nassau County community of North Hills.
Ohio
Hocking 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 North Hills [Hocking County].
Washington County
This North Hills is located in Washington County and lies 291 miles [468.3 km]<1> to the north northwest of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of North Hills.
Pennsylvania
Montgomery County
This North Hills is located in Montgomery County and lies 350 miles [563.3 km]<1> to the north northeast of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of North Hills.
Northumberland County
This North Hills is located in Northumberland County and lies 371 miles [597.1 km] to the north northeast of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Northumberland County community of North Hills.
York County
This North Hills is located in York County and lies 305 miles [490.8 km] to the north northeast of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of North Hills.
South Carolina
Greenville County
This North Hills is located in Greenville County and lies 221 miles [355.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greenville County community of North Hills.
Pickens County
This North Hills is located in Pickens County and lies 233 miles [375 km] to the west southwest of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pickens County community of North Hills.
Spartanburg County
This North Hills is located in Spartanburg County and lies 194 miles [312.2 km] to the west southwest of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Spartanburg County community of North Hills.
Tennessee
Knox County
This North Hills is located in Knox County and lies 294 miles [473.1 km]<1> to the west of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Knox County community of North Hills.
Washington County
This North Hills is located in Washington County and lies 210 miles [338 km] to the west of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of North Hills.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This North Hills is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,820 miles [2,929 km]<1> to the west northwest of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of North Hills.
Virginia
Bedford County
This North Hills is located in Bedford County and lies 115 miles [185.1 km]<1> to the north northwest of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bedford County community of North Hills.
Roanoke County
This North Hills is located in Roanoke County and lies 126 miles [202.8 km] to the northwest of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roanoke County community of North Hills.
West Virginia
Monongalia County
This North Hills is located in Monongalia County and lies 273 miles [439.4 km]<1> to the north northwest of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monongalia County community of North Hills.
Wood County
This North Hills is located in Wood County and lies 286 miles [460.3 km] to the north northwest of the North Hills that is located in Wake County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wood County community of North Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near North 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.
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 North Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in North Hills and extending to:
The White House (Washington, DC) is 228 miles [366.9 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from North Hills to White House, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 13 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 9 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,098 miles [9,813.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,794 miles [10,933.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,674 miles [7,522.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- North 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 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 North 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 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 North 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 North Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8402, Longitude: -78.6522 In this case, the coordinates for North Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.958 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.195 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.459 degrees.