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 Murray Hill:
40.695379, -74.400985
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 Murray 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 Union County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found fifteen communities that are also named Murray Hill.
Within New Jersey, the name Murray Hill is unique.
Beyond New Jersey, we know of fifteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Duval County
This Murray Hill is located in Duval County and lies 825 miles [1,327.7 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Murray Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Duval County community of Murray Hill.
Georgia
Burke County
This Murray Hill is located in Burke County and lies 669 miles [1,076.7 km]<1> to the southwest of the Murray Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Burke County community of Murray Hill.
Dougherty County
This Murray Hill is located in Dougherty County and lies 830 miles [1,335.8 km] to the southwest of the Murray Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dougherty County community of Murray Hill.
Kentucky
Jefferson County
This Murray Hill is located in Jefferson County and lies 618 miles [994.6 km]<1> to the west of the Murray Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Murray Hill.
Manitoba
We haven't found the location of this community yet.
Maryland
Baltimore County
This Murray Hill is located in Baltimore County and lies 148 miles [238.2 km]<1> to the southwest of the Murray Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Murray Hill.
Howard County
This Murray Hill is located in Howard County and lies 169 miles [272 km] to the southwest of the Murray Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Howard County community of Murray Hill.
Prince George's County
This Murray Hill is located in Prince George's County and lies 190 miles [305.8 km] to the southwest of the Murray Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Prince George's County community of Murray Hill.
Minnesota
Ramsey 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 Minnesota community of Murray Hill [Ramsey County].
New Hampshire
Merrimack County
This Murray Hill is located in Merrimack County and lies 237 miles [381.4 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Murray Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Merrimack County community of Murray Hill.
New York
New York County
This Murray Hill is located in New York County and lies 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> to the east of the Murray Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New York County community of Murray Hill.
Queens County
This Murray Hill is located in Queens County and lies 31 miles [49.9 km] to the east of the Murray Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Queens County community of Murray Hill.
Westchester County
This Murray Hill is located in Westchester County and lies 38 miles [61.2 km] to the east northeast of the Murray Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Westchester County community of Murray Hill.
Ontario
This Murray Hill lies 320 miles [515 km]<1> to the northwest of the Murray Hill that is located in Union County.
Pennsylvania
McKean 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 Pennsylvania community of Murray Hill [McKean County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Murray 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.
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 Murray Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Murray Hill and extending to:
Elizabeth, which is the Seat of Union County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the east southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Murray Hill to Elizabeth, 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.
Trenton, which is the State Capital of New Jersey, lies 37 miles [59.5 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take just about two full days and walking would take over two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 186 miles [299.3 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 11 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,711 miles [9,191 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,418 miles [10,328.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,294 miles [6,910.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Murray 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 Murray 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 Murray 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 Murray Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6954, Longitude: -74.4010 In this case, the coordinates for Murray Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.18 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.783 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.843 degrees.