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 Beaver Lake:
41.107597, -74.553493
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 Beaver Lake
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 Sussex County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named Beaver Lake.
Within New Jersey, the name Beaver Lake is unique.
Beyond New Jersey, we know of six communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, three are located in the United States and four are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alberta
This Beaver Lake lies 1,936 miles [3,115.7 km]<1> to the northwest of the Beaver Lake that is located in Sussex County.
British Columbia
This Beaver Lake lies 2,403 miles [3,867.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Beaver Lake that is located in Sussex County.
Michigan
Ogemaw 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 Michigan community of Beaver Lake [Ogemaw County].
New Hampshire
Rockingham 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 New Hampshire community of Beaver Lake [Rockingham County].
Ontario
This Beaver Lake lies 500 miles [804.7 km]<1> to the northwest of the Beaver Lake that is located in Sussex County.
Pennsylvania
Lycoming County
This Beaver Lake is located in Lycoming County and lies 106 miles [170.6 km]<1> to the west of the Beaver Lake that is located in Sussex County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lycoming County community of Beaver Lake.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Beaver Lake ...
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, 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 Beaver Lake to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Beaver Lake and extending to:
Newton, which is the Seat of Sussex County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the west southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Beaver Lake to Newton, with an average speed<3> 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.
Trenton, which is the State Capital of New Jersey, lies 62 miles [99.8 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take about three full days and walking would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 201 miles [323.5 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving 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 5,701 miles [9,174.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,409 miles [10,314.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,285 miles [6,896 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<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- Beaver Lake) 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 Beaver Lake 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 Beaver Lake 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 Beaver Lake. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.1076, Longitude: -74.5535 In this case, the coordinates for Beaver Lake have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.228 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.904 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.727 degrees.