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 Southern Hills:
39.723670, -84.194384
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 Southern Hills
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 five communities that are also named Southern Hills.
There is one other community in Ohio that is also named Southern Hills.
Beyond Ohio, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Ohio ...
Clark 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 Ohio community of Southern Hills [Clark County].
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Illinois
Jackson County
This Southern Hills is located in Jackson County and lies 304 miles [489.2 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Southern Hills that is located in Montgomery County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Southern Hills.
Louisiana
Caddo Parish
This Southern Hills is located in Caddo Parish and lies 736 miles [1,184.5 km]<2> to the southwest of the Southern Hills that is located in Montgomery County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caddo Parish community of Southern Hills.
Tennessee
Maury County
This Southern Hills is located in Maury County and lies 324 miles [521.4 km]<2> to the south southwest of the Southern Hills that is located in Montgomery County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Maury County community of Southern Hills.
Virginia
Roanoke City
This Southern Hills is located in Roanoke City and lies 286 miles [460.3 km]<2> to the southeast of the Southern Hills that is located in Montgomery County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roanoke City community of Southern Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Southern Hills ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Southern Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Southern Hills and extending to:
Columbus, which is the State Capital of Ohio, lies 65 miles [104.6 km]<2> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could walk a straight line from Southern Hills to Columbus, with an average speed<3> 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 386 miles [621.2 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<4> 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).<5>
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).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,755 miles [7,652.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 Southern Hills 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>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Southern Hills) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Southern Hills 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 Southern Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.7237, Longitude: -84.1944 In this case, the coordinates for Southern Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.227 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.502 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.572 degrees.