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 West Chester:
39.330455, -84.408004
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 West Chester
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 seven communities that are also named West Chester.
There is one other community in Ohio that is also named West Chester.
Beyond Ohio, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Ohio ...
Tuscarawas County
This West Chester is located in Tuscarawas County and lies 174 miles [280 km]<1> to the east northeast of the West Chester that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscarawas County community of West Chester.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Iowa
Washington County
This West Chester is located in Washington County and lies 413 miles [664.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the West Chester that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of West Chester.
Michigan
Ottawa 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 Michigan community of West Chester [Ottawa County].
Pennsylvania
Chester County
This West Chester is located in Chester County and lies 469 miles [754.8 km]<1> to the east of the West Chester that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chester County community of West Chester.
South Carolina
Chester 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 South Carolina community of West Chester [Chester County].
Richland County
This West Chester is located in Richland County and lies 408 miles [656.6 km]<1> to the south southeast of the West Chester that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richland County community of West Chester.
Virginia
Roanoke City
This West Chester is located in Roanoke City and lies 277 miles [445.8 km]<1> to the east southeast of the West Chester that is located in Butler County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roanoke City community of West Chester.
Curious and Interesting Names Near West Chester ...
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 West Chester to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in West Chester and extending to:
Hamilton, which is the Seat of Butler County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the west northwest. If you could walk a straight line from West Chester to Hamilton, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
Columbus, which is the State Capital of Ohio, lies 87 miles [140 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 395 miles [635.7 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 6,180 miles [9,945.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,904 miles [11,110.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,780 miles [7,692.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- West Chester) 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 West Chester 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 West Chester 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 West Chester. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.3305, Longitude: -84.4080
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.365 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.602 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.788 degrees.