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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 East Rutherford, we use the following websites to find information relevant to East Rutherford 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 East Rutherford:
- 40.370359, -77.604712
- 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 East Rutherford
- 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 Juniata County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Juniata County
- Since East Rutherford is near Perry County and also Huntingdon County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Perry County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Huntingdon 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 East Rutherford
Communities Also Named East Rutherford ...
We found one communities that are also named East Rutherford.
Within Pennsylvania, the name East Rutherford is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, there is another community also named East Rutherford in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- New Jersey
- Bergen 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 New Jersey community of East Rutherford [Bergen County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near East Rutherford ...
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.
- Couchtown
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Couchtown is located in Perry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Couchtown
- Cross Keys
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Cross Keys is located in Juniata County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Keys
- Honey Grove
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Longfellow
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Longfellow is located in Mifflin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longfellow
- Mount Pleasant
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Mount Pleasant is located in Perry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant
- Peru Mills
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Peru Mills is located in Juniata County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peru Mills
- Pleasant View
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Pleasant View is located in Juniata County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant View
- Reeds Gap
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Reeds Gap is located in Juniata County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reeds Gap
- Spears Grove
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Spears Grove is located in Juniata County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spears Grove
- Stony Point
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Stony Point is located in Perry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Point
How Far From East Rutherford 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 East Rutherford to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in East Rutherford and extending to:
- Mifflintown, which is the Seat of Juniata County, lies 17 miles [27.4 km]<3> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from East Rutherford to Mifflintown, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take five to six hours.
- Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 38 miles [61.2 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 over two days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 106 miles [170.6 km] to the south southeast (SSE). Driving would take less than two hours, a buggy would take 5 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 6,571 miles [10,575 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> | 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 East Rutherford 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 '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- East Rutherford) 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 East Rutherford 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 East Rutherford. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3704, Longitude: -77.6047 In this case, the coordinates for East Rutherford have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.13 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.94 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.384 degrees. |
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