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 Hampstead:
39.680893, -84.134937
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 Hampstead
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 Montgomery County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found nine communities that are also named Hampstead.
Within Ohio, the name Hampstead is unique.
Beyond Ohio, we know of nine communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, six are located in the United States and five are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maryland
Carroll County
This Hampstead is located in Carroll County and lies 386 miles [621.2 km]<1> to the east of the Hampstead that is located in Montgomery County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Hampstead.
New Brunswick
This Hampstead lies 997 miles [1,604.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Hampstead that is located in Montgomery County.
New Hampshire
Rockingham County
This Hampstead is located in Rockingham County and lies 706 miles [1,136.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Hampstead that is located in Montgomery County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockingham County community of Hampstead.
North Carolina
Forsyth County
This Hampstead is located in Forsyth County and lies 327 miles [526.3 km]<1> to the southeast of the Hampstead that is located in Montgomery County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Forsyth County community of Hampstead.
Pender County
This Hampstead is located in Pender County and lies 509 miles [819.2 km] to the southeast of the Hampstead that is located in Montgomery County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pender County community of Hampstead.
Ontario
This Hampstead lies 311 miles [500.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Hampstead that is located in Montgomery County.
Quebec
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 Quebec community of Hampstead.
Virginia
King George County
This Hampstead is located in King George County and lies 386 miles [621.2 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Hampstead that is located in Montgomery County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the King George County community of Hampstead.
New Kent County
This Hampstead is located in New Kent County and lies 403 miles [648.6 km] to the east southeast of the Hampstead that is located in Montgomery County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Kent County community of Hampstead.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Hampstead ...
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 Hampstead to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Hampstead and extending to:
Columbus, which is the State Capital of Ohio, lies 63 miles [101.4 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could walk a straight line from Hampstead to Columbus, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 383 miles [616.4 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 22 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,153 miles [9,902.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,878 miles [11,069.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,754 miles [7,650.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 from Point A (ie- Hampstead) 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 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 Hampstead 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Hampstead 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 Hampstead. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.6809, Longitude: -84.1349 In this case, the coordinates for Hampstead have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.19 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.453 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.558 degrees.