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 Fern Hill:
39.978665, -75.592568
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 five communities that share the name Fern Hill.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Fern Hill is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another five communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Illinois
Saint Clair County
Although located in Saint Clair County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Clair County community of Fern Hill.
Nova Scotia
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 Nova Scotia community of Fern Hill.
Oregon
Clatsop County
This Fern Hill is located in Clatsop County and lies 2,427 miles [3,905.9 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Fern Hill that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clatsop County community of Fern Hill.
Columbia County
This Fern Hill is located in Columbia County and lies 2,393 miles [3,851.2 km] to the west northwest of the Fern Hill that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Fern Hill.
Washington
Pierce County
This Fern Hill is located in Pierce County and lies 2,358 miles [3,794.8 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Fern Hill that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pierce County community of Fern Hill.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fern Hill ...
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.
Allegiance (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Allegiance have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Fern Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Fern Hill and extending to:
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 71 miles [114.3 km]<2> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Fern Hill 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 about three full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 107 miles [172.2 km] to the southwest (SW). 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 5,791 miles [9,319.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,497 miles [10,455.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,374 miles [7,039.3 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 Fern Hill 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- Fern Hill) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fern Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9787, Longitude: -75.5926 In this case, the coordinates for Fern Hill 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 Fern Hill 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 306.955 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.547 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.667 degrees.