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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 Dennis Mills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Dennis Mills 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 Dennis Mills:
- 41.060363, -76.318272
- 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 Dennis Mills
- 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 Columbia County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Columbia County
- Since Dennis Mills is near Luzerne County and also Schuylkill County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Luzerne County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Schuylkill 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 Dennis Mills
Communities Also Named Dennis Mills ...
We found one communities that are also named Dennis Mills.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Dennis Mills is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, there is another community also named Dennis Mills in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Louisiana
- Saint Helena Parish
- 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 Louisiana community of Dennis Mills [Saint Helena Parish].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Dennis Mills ...
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.
- Foundryville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Foundryville is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foundryville
- Fowlersville
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Fowlersville is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fowlersville
- Jonestown
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Jonestown is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonestown
- Lightstreet
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Lightstreet is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lightstreet
- Lime Ridge
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Lime Ridge is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lime Ridge
- Mainville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Mainville is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mainville
- Orangeville
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Paper Mill
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Paper Mill is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paper Mill
- Stillwater
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Summer Hill
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Summer Hill is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summer Hill
- Willow Springs
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Willow Springs is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Springs
How Far From Dennis Mills to ...
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 Dennis Mills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Dennis Mills and extending to:
- Bloomsburg, which is the Seat of Columbia County, lies just to the West Southwest.
- Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 61 miles [98.2 km]<3> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could walk a straight line from Dennis Mills to Harrisburg, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 154 miles [247.8 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,776 miles [9,295.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,489 miles [10,443 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,364 miles [7,023.2 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Dennis Mills 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Dennis Mills) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Dennis Mills 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 Dennis Mills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.0604, Longitude: -76.3183 In this case, the coordinates for Dennis Mills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.296 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.103 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.531 degrees. |
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