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 Birmingham:
39.905110, -75.594375
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 Birmingham
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 Chester County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found 24 communities that are also named Birmingham.
There are two communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Birmingham.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of 22 communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these 22 communities, 23 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
Allegheny 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 Pennsylvania community of Birmingham [Allegheny County].
Huntingdon County
This Birmingham is located in Huntingdon County and lies 146 miles [235 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Birmingham that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Huntingdon County community of Birmingham.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Jefferson County
This Birmingham is located in Jefferson County and lies 759 miles [1,221.5 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Birmingham that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Birmingham.
Colorado
Huerfano 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 Colorado community of Birmingham [Huerfano County].
Georgia
Fulton County
This Birmingham is located in Fulton County and lies 623 miles [1,002.6 km]<2> to the southwest of the Birmingham that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fulton County community of Birmingham.
Illinois
Schuyler County
This Birmingham is located in Schuyler County and lies 803 miles [1,292.3 km]<2> to the west of the Birmingham that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Schuyler County community of Birmingham.
Indiana
Miami County
This Birmingham is located in Miami County and lies 556 miles [894.8 km]<2> to the west of the Birmingham that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Miami County community of Birmingham.
Tippecanoe County
This Birmingham is located in Tippecanoe County and lies 594 miles [956 km] to the west of the Birmingham that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tippecanoe County community of Birmingham.
Iowa
Van Buren County
This Birmingham is located in Van Buren County and lies 861 miles [1,385.6 km]<2> to the west of the Birmingham that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Van Buren County community of Birmingham.
Kansas
Haskell 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 Kansas community of Birmingham [Haskell County].
Jackson County
This Birmingham is located in Jackson County and lies 1,066 miles [1,715.6 km]<2> to the west of the Birmingham that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Birmingham.
Kiowa 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 Kansas community of Birmingham [Kiowa County].
Wyandotte 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 Kansas community of Birmingham [Wyandotte County].
Kentucky
Marshall County
This Birmingham is located in Marshall County and lies 713 miles [1,147.5 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Birmingham that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marshall County community of Birmingham.
Michigan
Oakland County
This Birmingham is located in Oakland County and lies 435 miles [700.1 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Birmingham that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oakland County community of Birmingham.
Mississippi
Lee County
This Birmingham is located in Lee County and lies 817 miles [1,314.8 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Birmingham that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lee County community of Birmingham.
Missouri
Clay County
This Birmingham is located in Clay County and lies 1,003 miles [1,614.2 km]<2> to the west of the Birmingham that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clay County community of Birmingham.
New Jersey
Burlington County
This Birmingham is located in Burlington County and lies 47 miles [75.6 km]<2> to the east of the Birmingham that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Burlington County community of Birmingham.
Ohio
Coshocton County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Coshocton County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Coshocton County community of Birmingham.
Erie County
This Birmingham is located in Erie County and lies 367 miles [590.6 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Birmingham that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Erie County community of Birmingham.
Guernsey County
This Birmingham is located in Guernsey County and lies 309 miles [497.3 km] to the west of the Birmingham that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Guernsey County community of Birmingham.
Lucas County
This community is historic and although located in Lucas County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lucas County community of Birmingham.
Saskatchewan
This Birmingham lies 1,516 miles [2,439.8 km]<2> to the northwest of the Birmingham that is located in Chester County.
Virginia
Tazewell County
This Birmingham is located in Tazewell County and lies 388 miles [624.4 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Birmingham that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tazewell County community of Birmingham.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Birmingham ...
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 Birmingham to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Birmingham and extending to:
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 72 miles [115.9 km]<2> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Birmingham to Harrisburg, with an average speed<4>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 4 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 103 miles [165.8 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take less than two hours, a buggy would take 4 days and walking would take 6 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,794 miles [9,324.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,500 miles [10,460.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,377 miles [7,044.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
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 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 Birmingham 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- Birmingham) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>
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 Birmingham, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>
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.
<5>
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 Birmingham 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 Birmingham. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9051, Longitude: -75.5944 In this case, the coordinates for Birmingham have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.962 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.543 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.698 degrees.