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

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Harbor Hills:
    • 40.790935, -73.746521
    • 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.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Harbor Hills
  • 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:
    • Waymark.com

Communities Also Named Harbor Hills ...

We found seven communities that share the name Harbor Hills.

Within New York, the name Harbor Hills is unique.

Beyond New York, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Los Angeles County
      • This Harbor Hills is located in Los Angeles County and lies 2,468 miles [3,971.9 km]<1> to the west of the Harbor Hills that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Los Angeles County community of Harbor Hills.
    • Maryland
      • Anne Arundel County
      • This Harbor Hills is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 197 miles [317 km]<1> to the southwest of the Harbor Hills that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Harbor Hills.
      • Calvert County
      • This Harbor Hills is located in Calvert County and lies 220 miles [354.1 km] to the southwest of the Harbor Hills that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calvert County community of Harbor Hills.
    • Michigan
      • Muskegon 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 Michigan community of Harbor Hills [Muskegon County].
    • Ohio
      • Licking County
      • This Harbor Hills is located in Licking County and lies 460 miles [740.3 km]<1> to the west of the Harbor Hills that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Licking County community of Harbor Hills.
    • Tennessee
      • Bradley County
      • This Harbor Hills is located in Bradley County and lies 710 miles [1,142.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Harbor Hills that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bradley County community of Harbor Hills.
    • Virginia
      • Gloucester County
      • This Harbor Hills is located in Gloucester County and lies 284 miles [457.1 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Harbor Hills that is located in Nassau County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gloucester County community of Harbor Hills.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Harbor 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.

  • Bird Grove
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bird Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bird Grove
    • Bird Grove is located in Nassau County
  • Flower Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Flower Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flower Hill
    • Flower Hill is located in Nassau County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,903 people
  • Great Neck
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Great Neck have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Great Neck
    • Great Neck is located in Nassau County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,162 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Great Neck <4>
  • Great Neck Gardens
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Great Neck Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Great Neck Gardens
    • Great Neck Gardens is located in Nassau County
  • Kings Point
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Little Neck
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Locust Point
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Point
    • Locust Point is located in Bronx County
  • Manorhaven
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manorhaven have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manorhaven
    • Manorhaven is located in Nassau County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,744 people
  • Parsons Beach
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Parsons Beach have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parsons Beach
    • Parsons Beach is located in Queens County
  • Saddle Rock
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saddle Rock have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saddle Rock
    • Saddle Rock is located in Nassau County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 987 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Saddle Rock <4>
  • Silver Beach
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silver Beach have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Beach
    • Silver Beach is located in Bronx County
  • University Gardens
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for University Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for University Gardens
    • University Gardens is located in Nassau County

How Far From Harbor Hills to ...

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 Harbor Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Harbor Hills and extending to:

  • Mineola, which is the Seat of Nassau County, lies just to the East Southeast.
  • Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 128 miles [206 km]<1> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Harbor Hills to Albany, with an average speed<5>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 5 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 217 miles [349.2 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 13 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,679 miles [9,139.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,385 miles [10,275.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,262 miles [6,859 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Harbor Hills. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Nassau County: www.nassaucountyny.gov/

The official website for State of New York: https://www.ny.gov/

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- Harbor Hills) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Harbor Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.7909, Longitude: -73.7465       In this case, the coordinates for Harbor Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Harbor Hills 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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.
<6>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 Harbor Hills to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.781 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.347 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.516 degrees.




 

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