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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 Fairview Park:
40.287214, -75.830086
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.
We found ten communities that share the name Fairview Park.
There are four communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Fairview Park.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States.
In addition to the above occurrences of Fairview Park, we know of another community located outside of the United States and Canada.
Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
Chester 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 Fairview Park [Chester County].
Lancaster County
This Fairview Park is located in Lancaster County and lies 33 miles [53.1 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Fairview Park that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lancaster County community of Fairview Park.
Luzerne 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 Fairview Park [Luzerne County].
York County
This Fairview Park is located in York County and lies 54 miles [86.9 km]<2> to the west of the Fairview Park that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Fairview Park.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Indiana
Vermillion County
This Fairview Park is located in Vermillion County and lies 613 miles [986.5 km]<2> to the west of the Fairview Park that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Vermillion County community of Fairview Park.
North Carolina
Alexander County
This Fairview Park is located in Alexander County and lies 418 miles [672.7 km]<2> to the southwest of the Fairview Park that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Alexander County community of Fairview Park.
Cumberland County
This Fairview Park is located in Cumberland County and lies 396 miles [637.3 km] to the south southwest of the Fairview Park that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Fairview Park.
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
This Fairview Park is located in Cuyahoga County and lies 324 miles [521.4 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Fairview Park that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cuyahoga County community of Fairview Park.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Fairview Park is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,891 miles [3,043.3 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Fairview Park that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Fairview Park.
Communities Beyond North America ...
Australia
Distance: 10,512 miles [16,917.4 km]<2> to the west
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fairview Park ...
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.
Fairway (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairway have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Fairview Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Fairview Park and extending to:
Reading, which is the Seat of Berks County, lies just to the West Northwest.
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 55 miles [88.5 km]<2> to the west (W). If you could walk a straight line from Fairview Park 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 over two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 115 miles [185.1 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,788 miles [9,314.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,496 miles [10,454.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,372 miles [7,036.1 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 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 Fairview Park 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- Fairview Park) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fairview Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.2872, Longitude: -75.8301 In this case, the coordinates for Fairview Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<3>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<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 Fairview Park to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.07 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.725 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.64 degrees.