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 Fox Hills:
40.615104, -74.084586
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 Fox Hills
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 Richmond County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Fox Hills.
Within New York, the name Fox Hills is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Illinois
Cook County
This Fox Hills is located in Cook County and lies 723 miles [1,163.6 km]<1> to the west of the Fox Hills that is located in Richmond County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Fox Hills.
Maryland
Montgomery County
This Fox Hills is located in Montgomery County and lies 196 miles [315.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Fox Hills that is located in Richmond County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Fox Hills.
Tennessee
Blount County
This Fox Hills is located in Blount County and lies 628 miles [1,010.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Fox Hills that is located in Richmond County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blount County community of Fox Hills.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Fox Hills is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,970 miles [3,170.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Fox Hills that is located in Richmond County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Fox Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fox Hills ...
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 Fox Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Fox Hills and extending to:
Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 141 miles [226.9 km]<1> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Fox Hills to Albany, with an average speed<2>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 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 196 miles [315.4 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 12 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,701 miles [9,174.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,407 miles [10,311.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,283 miles [6,892.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>'
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- Fox Hills) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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.
<3>
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 Fox Hills 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 Fox Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6151, Longitude: -74.0846 In this case, the coordinates for Fox Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.00 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.567 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.742 degrees.