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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 Franklinville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Franklinville 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 Franklinville:
    • 39.618171, -75.075731
    • 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 Franklinville
  • 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 Gloucester County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Gloucester County
    • Since Franklinville is near Salem County and also Cumberland County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Salem County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cumberland 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 Franklinville

Communities Also Named Franklinville ...

We found twelve communities that are also named Franklinville.

Within New Jersey, the name Franklinville is unique.

Beyond New Jersey, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Lowndes County
      • This Franklinville is located in Lowndes County and lies 753 miles [1,211.8 km]<1> to the southwest of the Franklinville that is located in Gloucester County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lowndes County community of Franklinville.
    • Illinois
      • McHenry County
      • This Franklinville is located in McHenry County and lies 723 miles [1,163.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Franklinville that is located in Gloucester County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the McHenry County community of Franklinville.
    • Kansas
      • Ness 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 Kansas community of Franklinville [Ness County].
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore County
      • This Franklinville is located in Baltimore County and lies 70 miles [112.7 km]<1> to the west of the Franklinville that is located in Gloucester County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Franklinville.
      • Carroll County
      • This Franklinville is located in Carroll County and lies 108 miles [173.8 km] to the west of the Franklinville that is located in Gloucester County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Franklinville.
      • Frederick 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 Maryland community of Franklinville [Frederick County].
    • Missouri
      • Shelby County
      • Although located in Shelby County, we don't know the location within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shelby County community of Franklinville.
    • New York
      • Cattaraugus County
      • This Franklinville is located in Cattaraugus County and lies 257 miles [413.6 km]<1> to the northwest of the Franklinville that is located in Gloucester County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cattaraugus County community of Franklinville.
    • North Carolina
      • Randolph County
      • This Franklinville is located in Randolph County and lies 367 miles [590.6 km]<1> to the southwest of the Franklinville that is located in Gloucester County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Randolph County community of Franklinville.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Huntingdon County
      • This Franklinville is located in Huntingdon County and lies 174 miles [280 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Franklinville that is located in Gloucester County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Huntingdon County community of Franklinville.
      • Montgomery County
      • This Franklinville is located in Montgomery County and lies 40 miles [64.4 km] to the north northwest of the Franklinville that is located in Gloucester County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Franklinville.
      • Philadelphia County
      • This Franklinville is located in Philadelphia County and lies 27 miles [43.5 km] to the north of the Franklinville that is located in Gloucester County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Philadelphia County community of Franklinville.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Franklinville ...

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.

  • Alliance
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Alliance is located in Salem County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alliance
  • Blue Bell
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Blue Bell is located in Gloucester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Bell
  • Downer
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Downer is located in Gloucester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Downer
  • Forest Grove
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Forest Grove is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Grove
  • Friendship
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Friendship is located in Salem County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
  • Fries Mill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Fries Mill is located in Gloucester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fries Mill
  • Maple Grove
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Maple Grove is located in Salem County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Grove
  • New Freedom
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • New Freedom is located in Salem County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Freedom
  • Plainville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Plainville is located in Gloucester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainville
  • Pleasantville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Pleasantville is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasantville
  • Star Cross
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Star Cross is located in Gloucester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Star Cross
  • Victory Lakes
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Victory Lakes is located in Gloucester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victory Lakes
  • Willow Grove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Willow Grove is located in Salem County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Grove

How Far From Franklinville to ...

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 Franklinville to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Woodbury, which is the Seat of Gloucester County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> to the north northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Franklinville to Woodbury, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
  • Trenton, which is the State Capital of New Jersey, lies 44 miles [70.8 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take most of two days and walking would take about three full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 116 miles [186.7 km] to the west southwest (WSW). Driving would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,784 miles [9,308.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,487 miles [10,439.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,365 miles [7,024.8 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Franklinville) 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 Franklinville 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 Franklinville 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 Franklinville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.6182, Longitude: -75.0757       In this case, the coordinates for Franklinville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.681 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.179 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.598 degrees.