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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 Hartsville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hartsville 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 Hartsville:
    • 42.246872, -77.693873
    • 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 Hartsville
  • 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 Steuben County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Steuben County
    • Since Hartsville is near Allegany County and also Tioga County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Allegany County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Tioga County
  • 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:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Hartsville

Communities Also Named Hartsville ...

We found twelve communities that are also named Hartsville.

Within New York, the name Hartsville is unique.

Beyond New York, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Chaffee County
      • This community is historic<1> and although located in Chaffee County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chaffee County community of Hartsville.
    • Illinois
      • Pope County
      • This Hartsville is located in Pope County and lies 656 miles [1,055.7 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Hartsville that is located in Steuben County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pope County community of Hartsville.
    • Indiana
      • Bartholomew County
      • This Hartsville is located in Bartholomew County and lies 466 miles [750 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Hartsville that is located in Steuben County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bartholomew County community of Hartsville.
    • Kansas
      • Cherokee County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Hartsville [Cherokee County].
    • Massachusetts
      • Berkshire County
      • This Hartsville is located in Berkshire County and lies 226 miles [363.7 km]<2> to the east of the Hartsville that is located in Steuben County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Berkshire County community of Hartsville.
      • Dukes County
      • This Hartsville is located in Dukes County and lies 371 miles [597.1 km] to the east of the Hartsville that is located in Steuben County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dukes County community of Hartsville.
    • North Carolina
      • Wake County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Hartsville [Wake County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Bucks County
      • This Hartsville is located in Bucks County and lies 194 miles [312.2 km]<2> to the southeast of the Hartsville that is located in Steuben County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bucks County community of Hartsville.
      • Lehigh County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Hartsville [Lehigh County].
    • Prince Edward Island
      • This Hartsville lies 759 miles [1,221.5 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Hartsville that is located in Steuben County.
    • South Carolina
      • Darlington County
      • This Hartsville is located in Darlington County and lies 558 miles [898 km]<2> to the south southwest of the Hartsville that is located in Steuben County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Darlington County community of Hartsville.
    • Tennessee
      • Trousdale County
      • This Hartsville is located in Trousdale County and lies 606 miles [975.3 km]<2> to the southwest of the Hartsville that is located in Steuben County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Trousdale County community of Hartsville.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Hartsville ...

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.

How Far From Hartsville 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 Hartsville to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Bath, which is the Seat of Steuben County, lies 20 miles [32.2 km]<2> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Hartsville to Bath, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
  • Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 202 miles [325.1 km] to the east (E). 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 12 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 233 miles [375 km] to the south (S). Driving would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 14 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,782 miles [9,305.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,502 miles [10,464 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,378 miles [7,045.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Hartsville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>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 from Point A (ie- Hartsville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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 Hartsville 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.
<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 Hartsville 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 Hartsville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.2469, Longitude: -77.6939    
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.037 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.129 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.663 degrees.