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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 The Knolls, we use the following websites to find information relevant to The Knolls 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 The Knolls:
    • 40.858391, -81.389557
    • 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 The Knolls
  • 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 Stark County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Stark County
    • Since The Knolls is near Summit County and also Portage County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Summit County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Portage 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 The Knolls

Communities Also Named The Knolls ...

We found seven communities that are also named The Knolls.

There is one other community in Ohio that is also named The Knolls.

Beyond Ohio, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Ohio ...
    • Clark County
      • This The Knolls is located in Clark County and lies 136 miles [218.9 km]<1> to the west southwest of the The Knolls that is located in Stark County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of The Knolls.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Illinois
      • Kane County
      • This The Knolls is located in Kane County and lies 372 miles [598.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the The Knolls that is located in Stark County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kane County community of The Knolls.
    • Maryland
      • Calvert County
      • This The Knolls is located in Calvert County and lies 300 miles [482.8 km]<1> to the east southeast of the The Knolls that is located in Stark County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calvert County community of The Knolls.
    • Utah
      • Tooele County
      • This The Knolls is located in Tooele County and lies 1,658 miles [2,668.3 km]<1> to the west of the The Knolls that is located in Stark County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tooele County community of The Knolls.
    • Virginia
      • Campbell 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 Virginia community of The Knolls [Campbell County].
      • Frederick County
      • This The Knolls is located in Frederick County and lies 193 miles [310.6 km]<1> to the southeast of the The Knolls that is located in Stark County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of The Knolls.
      • Prince William County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Virginia community of The Knolls [Prince William County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near The Knolls ...

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.

  • Cairo
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Cairo is located in Stark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cairo
  • Crystal Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Crystal Park is located in Stark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Park
  • Diamond ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Diamond is located in Stark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond
  • Edgefield
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Edgefield is located in Stark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgefield
  • Greentown
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Greentown is located in Stark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greentown
  • Grove Mill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Grove Mill is located in Stark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grove Mill
  • Hills and Dales
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Hills and Dales is located in Stark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hills and Dales
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 220 people
  • Lake Cable
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Lake Cable is located in Stark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Cable
  • Lake Slagle
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Lake Slagle is located in Stark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Slagle
  • Lake View Heights
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Lake View Heights is located in Stark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake View Heights
  • Lincoln Heights
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Lincoln Heights is located in Stark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Heights
  • Mount Pleasant
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Mount Pleasant is located in Stark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • Oval City
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Oval City is located in Stark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oval City
    • Parkridge
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Parkridge is located in Stark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkridge
    • Plain
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Plain is located in Stark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plain
    • Pleasant View
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Pleasant View is located in Stark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant View
    • Ridgedale
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Ridgedale is located in Stark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgedale
    • Skyline Hills
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Skyline Hills is located in Stark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skyline Hills
    • Sweetbriar
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Sweetbriar is located in Stark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetbriar
    • Tower Terrace
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Tower Terrace is located in Stark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tower Terrace

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

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

  • Canton, which is the Seat of Stark County, lies just to the South.
  • Columbus, which is the State Capital of Ohio, lies 104 miles [167.4 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could drive a straight line from The Knolls 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 4 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 267 miles [429.7 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 16 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,991 miles [9,641.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,714 miles [10,805.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,589 miles [7,385.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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- The Knolls) 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 The Knolls 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 The Knolls 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 The Knolls. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.8584, Longitude: -81.3896       In this case, the coordinates for The Knolls have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.433 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.628 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.91 degrees.