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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 East Burlington, we use the following websites to find information relevant to East Burlington 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 East Burlington:
    • 40.079000, -74.837942
    • 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 East Burlington
  • 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 Burlington County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Burlington County
    • Since East Burlington is near Bucks County and also Philadelphia County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Bucks County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Philadelphia 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 East Burlington

Communities Also Named East Burlington ...

We found one communities that are also named East Burlington.

Within New Jersey, the name East Burlington is unique.

Beyond New Jersey, there is another community also named East Burlington in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Illinois
      • Kane 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 Illinois community of East Burlington [Kane County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near East Burlington ...

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.

  • Beverly
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Beverly is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beverly
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,480 people
  • Deacons
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Deacons is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deacons
  • Dogwood Hollow
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Dogwood Hollow is located in Bucks County (PA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dogwood Hollow
  • Edgewater Park
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Edgewater Park is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewater Park
  • Florence
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Florence is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
  • Florence Station
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Florence Station is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence Station
  • Flushing
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Flushing is located in Bucks County (PA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flushing
  • Goldenridge
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Goldenridge is located in Bucks County (PA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldenridge
  • Indian Creek
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Indian Creek is located in Bucks County (PA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Creek
  • Maple Beach
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Maple Beach is located in Bucks County (PA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Beach
  • Maple Shade
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Maple Shade is located in Bucks County (PA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Shade
  • Margo Gardens
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Margo Gardens is located in Bucks County (PA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Margo Gardens
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Oaktree Hollow
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Oaktree Hollow is located in Bucks County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oaktree Hollow
    • Orchard View
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Orchard View is located in Burlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchard View
    • Pennypacker Park
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Pennypacker Park is located in Burlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennypacker Park
    • Rockdale
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Rockdale is located in Bucks County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockdale
    • Violet Wood
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Violet Wood is located in Bucks County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Violet Wood
    • Winder Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Winder Village is located in Bucks County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winder Village
    • Yellowood
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Yellowood is located in Bucks County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellowood

How Far From East Burlington 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 East Burlington to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in East Burlington and extending to:

  • Mount Holly, which is the Seat of Burlington County, lies just to the South Southeast.
  • Trenton, which is the State Capital of New Jersey, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could walk a straight line from East Burlington to Trenton, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 142 miles [228.5 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 8 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,755 miles [9,261.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,460 miles [10,396.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,337 miles [6,979.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'

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 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 East Burlington 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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- East Burlington) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 East Burlington 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 East Burlington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.0790, Longitude: -74.8379       In this case, the coordinates for East Burlington have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.499 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.046 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.301 degrees.