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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 Bernice, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Bernice and the surrounding area.

  • 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 Bernice:
    • 41.470266, -76.381628
    • 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 Bernice
  • 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 Sullivan County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Sullivan County
    • Since Bernice is near Wyoming County and also Bradford County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Wyoming County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Bradford 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 Bernice

Communities Also Named Bernice ...

We found twelve communities that are also named Bernice.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Bernice is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Pope County
      • This Bernice is located in Pope County and lies 1,001 miles [1,611 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Bernice that is located in Sullivan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pope County community of Bernice.
    • California
      • Imperial County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Bernice [Imperial County].
    • Illinois
      • Cook County
      • This Bernice is located in Cook County and lies 576 miles [927 km]<1> to the west of the Bernice that is located in Sullivan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Bernice.
    • Kentucky
      • Clay County
      • This Bernice is located in Clay County and lies 491 miles [790.2 km]<1> to the southwest of the Bernice that is located in Sullivan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clay County community of Bernice.
    • Louisiana
      • Union Parish
      • This Bernice is located in Union Parish and lies 1,073 miles [1,726.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Bernice that is located in Sullivan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union Parish community of Bernice.
    • Manitoba
      • This Bernice lies 1,299 miles [2,090.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Bernice that is located in Sullivan County.
    • Montana
      • Jefferson County
      • This Bernice is located in Jefferson County and lies 1,804 miles [2,903.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Bernice that is located in Sullivan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Bernice.
    • Nevada
      • Churchill County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Bernice [Churchill County].
    • North Carolina
      • Ashe County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Bernice [Ashe County].
    • Ohio
      • Tuscarawas County
      • This Bernice is located in Tuscarawas County and lies 280 miles [450.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Bernice that is located in Sullivan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscarawas County community of Bernice.
    • Oklahoma
      • Delaware County
      • This Bernice is located in Delaware County and lies 1,046 miles [1,683.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Bernice that is located in Sullivan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Delaware County community of Bernice.
    • Texas
      • Andrews County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Bernice [Andrews County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Bernice ...

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.

How Far From Bernice to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Bernice to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Laporte, which is the Seat of Sullivan County, lies just to the West Southwest.
  • Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 86 miles [138.4 km]<1> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could drive a straight line from Bernice to Harrisburg, with an average speed<5>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 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 180 miles [289.7 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 7 days and walking would take 11 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,762 miles [9,273 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,476 miles [10,422.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,351 miles [7,002.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>'

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- Bernice) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Bernice, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 Bernice 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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.
<6>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 Bernice 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 Bernice. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.4703, Longitude: -76.3816       In this case, the coordinates for Bernice have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.298 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.17 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.386 degrees.