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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 Olive Hill, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Olive 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 Olive Hill:
    • 36.424585, -79.049457
    • 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 Olive 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 Person County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Person County
    • Since Olive Hill is near Caswell County and also Halifax County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Caswell County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Halifax 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 Olive Hill

Communities Also Named Olive Hill ...

We found four communities that are also named Olive Hill.

There is one other community in North Carolina that is also named Olive Hill.

Beyond North Carolina, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In North Carolina ...
    • Macon County
      • This Olive Hill is located in Macon County and lies 260 miles [418.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Olive Hill that is located in Person County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Macon County community of Olive Hill.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Yuba County
      • This Olive Hill is located in Yuba County and lies 2,300 miles [3,701.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Olive Hill that is located in Person County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yuba County community of Olive Hill.
    • Indiana
      • Wayne 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 Indiana community of Olive Hill [Wayne County].
    • Kentucky
      • Carter County
      • This Olive Hill is located in Carter County and lies 260 miles [418.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Olive Hill that is located in Person County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carter County community of Olive Hill.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Olive 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.

  • Bushy Fork
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Bushy Fork is located in Person County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bushy Fork
  • Chub Lake
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Chub Lake is located in Person County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chub Lake
  • Five Forks
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Five Forks is located in Person County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Forks
  • Frogsboro
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Frogsboro is located in Caswell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frogsboro
  • Hicks Village
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Hicks Village is located in Person County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hicks Village
  • Lake View
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Lake View is located in Person County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake View
  • Longs Store
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Longs Store is located in Person County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longs Store
  • Rogersville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Rogersville is located in Person County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogersville
  • Roseville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Roseville is located in Person County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roseville

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

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

  • Roxboro, which is the Seat of Person County, lies just to the East Southeast.
  • Raleigh, which is the State Capital of North Carolina, lies 49 miles [78.9 km]<1> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could walk a straight line from Olive Hill to Raleigh, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take about three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of two days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 203 miles [326.7 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 12 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,090 miles [9,800.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,789 miles [10,925.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,668 miles [7,512.4 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Olive 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 Olive 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 Olive 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 Olive Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.4246, Longitude: -79.0495       In this case, the coordinates for Olive Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.172 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.527 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.422 degrees.