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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 Melvin Hill, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Melvin Hill and the surrounding area.
- 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 Melvin Hill:
- 42.916519, -77.062814
- 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 Melvin 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 Ontario County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Ontario County
- Since Melvin Hill is near Seneca County and also Wayne County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Seneca County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Wayne 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 Melvin Hill
Communities Also Named Melvin Hill ...
We found one communities that are also named Melvin Hill.
Within New York, the name Melvin Hill is unique.
Beyond New York, there is another community also named Melvin Hill in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- North Carolina
- Polk County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Melvin Hill [Polk County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Melvin 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.
- Border City
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Border City is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Border City
- Five Points
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Five Points is located in Ontario County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
- Flint
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Geneva
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Gypsum
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Gypsum is located in Ontario County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gypsum
- Knickerbocker Corner
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Knickerbocker Corner is located in Ontario County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knickerbocker Corner
- Mead Corner
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Mead Corner is located in Ontario County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mead Corner
- Oaks Corners
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Orleans
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Orleans is located in Ontario County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orleans
- Pre-emption
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Pre-emption is located in Ontario County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pre-emption
- Stanley
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Unionville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Unionville is located in Ontario County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unionville
How Far From Melvin Hill 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 Melvin Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Melvin Hill and extending to:
- Canandaigua, which is the Seat of Ontario County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> to the west. If you could walk a straight line from Melvin Hill to Canandaigua, 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.
- Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 168 miles [270.4 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about three hours, a buggy would take 7 days and walking would take 10 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 277 miles [445.8 km] to the south (S). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 16 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,729 miles [9,219.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,450 miles [10,380.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,326 miles [6,962 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Melvin 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. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Melvin Hill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Melvin 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 Melvin Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.9165, Longitude: -77.0628 In this case, the coordinates for Melvin Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.582 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.721 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.081 degrees. |
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