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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 Hedding, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hedding and the surrounding area.

  • 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 Hedding:
    • 40.107888, -74.743772
    • 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 Hedding
  • 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 Hedding is near Bucks County and also Mercer 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 Mercer 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 Hedding

Communities Also Named Hedding ...

We found one communities that are also named Hedding.

Within New Jersey, the name Hedding is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • New Hampshire
      • Rockingham 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 New Hampshire community of Hedding [Rockingham County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Hedding ...

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.

  • Birch Valley
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Birch Valley is located in Bucks County (PA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birch Valley
  • Chambers Corners
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Chambers Corners is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chambers Corners
  • Columbus
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Columbus is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus
  • Crabtree Hollow
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Crabtree Hollow is located in Bucks County (PA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crabtree Hollow
  • Deacons
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Deacons is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deacons
  • Dogwood Hollow
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Dogwood Hollow is located in Bucks County (PA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dogwood Hollow
  • Elderberry Pond
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Elderberry Pond is located in Bucks County (PA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elderberry Pond
  • Florence
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Florence is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
  • Florence Station
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Florence Station is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence Station
  • Georgetown
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Georgetown is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georgetown
  • Goldenridge
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Goldenridge is located in Bucks County (PA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldenridge
  • Groveville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Groveville is located in Mercer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Groveville
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Holly Hill
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Holly Hill is located in Bucks County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly Hill
    • Indian Creek
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Indian Creek is located in Bucks County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Creek
    • Jobstown
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Jobstown is located in Burlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jobstown
    • Maple Beach
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Maple Beach is located in Bucks County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Beach
    • Margo Gardens
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Margo Gardens is located in Bucks County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Margo Gardens
    • Mile Hollow
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Mile Hollow is located in Burlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mile Hollow
    • Oaktree Hollow
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Oaktree Hollow is located in Bucks County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oaktree Hollow
    • Parsonville
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Parsonville is located in Burlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parsonville
    • Red Cedar Hill
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Red Cedar Hill is located in Bucks County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Cedar Hill
    • Sharp
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Sharp is located in Burlington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharp
    • Thornridge
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Thornridge is located in Bucks County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thornridge
    • Violet Wood
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Violet Wood is located in Bucks County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Violet Wood
    • Wheat Sheaf
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Wheat Sheaf is located in Bucks County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheat Sheaf
    • White Horse
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • White Horse is located in Mercer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Horse
    • Will O Wood
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Will O Wood is located in Bucks County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Will O Wood
    • Winder Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Winder Village is located in Bucks County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winder Village
    • Yellowood
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Yellowood is located in Bucks County (PA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellowood

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

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

  • Mount Holly, which is the Seat of Burlington County, lies just to the South Southwest.
  • Trenton, which is the State Capital of New Jersey, lies just to the north (N).
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 147 miles [236.6 km]<2> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could drive a straight line from Hedding to White House, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,750 miles [9,253.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,454 miles [10,386.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,331 miles [6,970.1 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 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 Hedding 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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hedding) 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 Hedding 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 Hedding. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.1079, Longitude: -74.7438       In this case, the coordinates for Hedding have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.441 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.985 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.248 degrees.