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 Union Furnace:
39.461445, -82.356157
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 Union Furnace
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 Hocking County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Union Furnace.
Within Ohio, the name Union Furnace is unique.
Beyond Ohio, there is another community also named Union Furnace in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Pennsylvania
Huntingdon County
This Union Furnace is located in Huntingdon County and lies 235 miles [378.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Union Furnace that is located in Hocking County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Huntingdon County community of Union Furnace.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Union Furnace ...
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 Union Furnace to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Union Furnace and extending to:
Logan, which is the Seat of Hocking County, lies just to the North Northwest.
Columbus, which is the State Capital of Ohio, lies 49 miles [78.9 km]<1> to the northwest (NW). If you could walk a straight line from Union Furnace to Columbus, with an average speed<2> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take about three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 287 miles [461.9 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 12 days and walking would take 17 days.
The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,092 miles [9,804.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<4>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,812 miles [10,962.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,688 miles [7,544.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Union Furnace) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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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.
<3>
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 Union Furnace 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 Union Furnace. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.4614, Longitude: -82.3562
<4>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.082 degrees.
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.157 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.822 degrees.