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 Stony Hill:
40.670380, -74.427375
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 Stony 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 seven communities that are also named Stony Hill.
Within New Jersey, the name Stony Hill is unique.
Beyond New Jersey, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these seven communities, six are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Warren County
This Stony Hill is located in Warren County and lies 679 miles [1,092.7 km]<1> to the southwest of the Stony Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Stony Hill.
Manitoba
This Stony Hill lies 1,218 miles [1,960.2 km]<1> to the northwest of the Stony Hill that is located in Union County.
Missouri
Gasconade County
This Stony Hill is located in Gasconade County and lies 911 miles [1,466.1 km]<1> to the west of the Stony Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gasconade County community of Stony Hill.
New York
Albany County
This Stony Hill is located in Albany County and lies 135 miles [217.3 km]<1> to the north of the Stony Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Albany County community of Stony Hill.
North Carolina
Wake County
This Stony Hill is located in Wake County and lies 395 miles [635.7 km]<1> to the southwest of the Stony Hill that is located in Union County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wake County community of Stony Hill.
Wilkes 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 North Carolina community of Stony Hill [Wilkes County].
Ohio
Scioto County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Scioto County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Scioto County community of Stony Hill.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Stony 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 & 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 Stony Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Stony Hill and extending to:
Elizabeth, which is the Seat of Union County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the east. If you could walk a straight line from Stony Hill to Elizabeth, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Trenton, which is the State Capital of New Jersey, lies 35 miles [56.3 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 most of two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 184 miles [296.1 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,713 miles [9,194.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,420 miles [10,332 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,296 miles [6,913.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Stony 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 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 Stony 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>
We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Stony Hill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>
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.
<5>
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 Stony 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 Stony Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6704, Longitude: -74.4274 In this case, the coordinates for Stony Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.198 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.80 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.866 degrees.