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 Park Village:
40.651492, -74.290703
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 Park Village
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 seven communities that are also named Park Village.
Within New Jersey, the name Park Village is unique.
Beyond New Jersey, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
El Dorado County
This Park Village is located in El Dorado County and lies 2,461 miles [3,960.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Park Village that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the El Dorado County community of Park Village.
Inyo County
This Park Village is located in Inyo County and lies 2,292 miles [3,688.6 km] to the west of the Park Village that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Inyo County community of Park Village.
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Park Village is located in Hillsborough County and lies 1,006 miles [1,619 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Park Village that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Park Village.
New York
Niagara County
This Park Village is located in Niagara County and lies 285 miles [458.7 km]<1> to the northwest of the Park Village that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Niagara County community of Park Village.
Pennsylvania
York County
This Park Village is located in York County and lies 137 miles [220.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Park Village that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Park Village.
Tennessee
Putnam County
This Park Village is located in Putnam County and lies 679 miles [1,092.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Park Village that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Putnam County community of Park Village.
Texas
Bexar 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 Texas community of Park Village [Bexar County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Park Village ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Park Village to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Park Village and extending to:
Trenton, which is the State Capital of New Jersey, lies 38 miles [61.2 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could walk a straight line from Park Village to Trenton, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take over two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 189 miles [304.2 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, 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 5,708 miles [9,186.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,414 miles [10,322.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,291 miles [6,905.7 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- Park Village) 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 Park Village 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 Park Village 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 Park Village. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6515, Longitude: -74.2907 In this case, the coordinates for Park Village have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.119 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.707 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.815 degrees.