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 Columbia Heights:
39.388390, -84.581891
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 Columbia Heights
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 Butler County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eleven communities that are also named Columbia Heights.
Within Ohio, the name Columbia Heights is unique.
Beyond Ohio, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Columbia County
This Columbia Heights is located in Columbia County and lies 428 miles [688.8 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Columbia Heights that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Columbia Heights.
Muscogee County
This Columbia Heights is located in Muscogee County and lies 479 miles [770.9 km] to the south of the Columbia Heights that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Muscogee County community of Columbia Heights.
Louisiana
Caldwell Parish
This Columbia Heights is located in Caldwell Parish and lies 655 miles [1,054.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the Columbia Heights that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caldwell Parish community of Columbia Heights.
Minnesota
Anoka County
This Columbia Heights is located in Anoka County and lies 590 miles [949.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Columbia Heights that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anoka County community of Columbia Heights.
Montana
Flathead 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 Montana community of Columbia Heights [Flathead County].
North Carolina
Forsyth County
This Columbia Heights is located in Forsyth County and lies 329 miles [529.5 km]<1> to the southeast of the Columbia Heights that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Forsyth County community of Columbia Heights.
Oregon
Columbia County
This Columbia Heights is located in Columbia County and lies 1,974 miles [3,176.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Columbia Heights that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Columbia Heights.
Rhode Island
Washington County
This Columbia Heights is located in Washington County and lies 694 miles [1,116.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Columbia Heights that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Columbia Heights.
Texas
Bexar County
This Columbia Heights is located in Bexar County and lies 1,051 miles [1,691.4 km]<1> to the southwest of the Columbia Heights that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bexar County community of Columbia Heights.
Virginia
Arlington County
This Columbia Heights is located in Arlington County and lies 401 miles [645.3 km]<1> to the east of the Columbia Heights that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Arlington County community of Columbia Heights.
Washington
Cowlitz County
This Columbia Heights is located in Cowlitz County and lies 1,979 miles [3,184.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Columbia Heights that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cowlitz County community of Columbia Heights.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Columbia Heights ...
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 Columbia Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Columbia Heights and extending to:
Columbus, which is the State Capital of Ohio, lies 93 miles [149.7 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Columbia Heights to Columbus, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 405 miles [651.8 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 23 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,184 miles [9,952.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,909 miles [11,119 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,785 miles [7,700.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Columbia Heights) 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 Columbia Heights 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>
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.
<4>
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 Columbia Heights 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 Columbia Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.3884, Longitude: -84.5819 In this case, the coordinates for Columbia Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.475 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.736 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.85 degrees.