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 Center Square:
40.295917, -77.549988
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 Center Square
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 Perry County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named Center Square.
There are two communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Center Square.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
Lancaster County
This Center Square is located in Lancaster County and lies 72 miles [115.9 km]<1> to the east of the Center Square that is located in Perry County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lancaster County community of Center Square.
Montgomery County
This Center Square is located in Montgomery County and lies 119 miles [191.5 km]<1> to the east of the Center Square that is located in Perry County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Center Square.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Indiana
Switzerland County
This Center Square is located in Switzerland County and lies 410 miles [659.8 km]<1> to the west of the Center Square that is located in Perry County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Switzerland County community of Center Square.
Missouri
Jackson 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 Missouri community of Center Square [Jackson County].
New Jersey
Gloucester 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 New Jersey community of Center Square [Gloucester County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Center Square ...
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 & 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 Center Square to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Center Square and extending to:
New Bloomfield, which is the Seat of Perry County, lies 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Center Square to New Bloomfield, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 35 miles [56.3 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take just about two full days and walking would take most of two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 100 miles [160.9 km] to the south southeast (SSE). Driving would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,859 miles [9,429.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,572 miles [10,576.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,447 miles [7,156.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Center Square) 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 Center Square 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Center Square 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 Center Square. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.2959, Longitude: -77.5500 In this case, the coordinates for Center Square have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.102 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.897 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.389 degrees.