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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 Fisher Heights, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Fisher Heights 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 Fisher Heights:
- 40.925342, -79.953945
- 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 Fisher Heights
- 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 Butler County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Butler County
- Since Fisher Heights is near Lawrence County and also Beaver County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lawrence County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Beaver 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 Fisher Heights
Communities Also Named Fisher Heights ...
We found two communities that are also named Fisher Heights.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania that is also named Fisher Heights.
Beyond Pennsylvania, there is another community also named Fisher Heights in the United States and Canada.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Washington 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 Fisher Heights [Washington County].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Ontario
- This Fisher Heights lies 373 miles [600.3 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Fisher Heights that is located in Butler County.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fisher Heights ...
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.
- Butler
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Euclid
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Euclid is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Euclid
- Greenwood Village
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Greenwood Village is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood Village
- Hickory Corner
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Hickory Corner is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Corner
- Highfield
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Highfield is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highfield
- Meridian
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Meridian is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meridian
- Mount Chestnut
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Mount Chestnut is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Chestnut
- Muddy Creek
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Muddy Creek is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muddy Creek
- Prospect
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Queen Junction
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Queen Junction is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Queen Junction
- Unionville
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Unionville is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unionville
How Far From Fisher Heights to ...
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 Fisher Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Fisher Heights and extending to:
- Butler, which is the Seat of Butler County, lies just to the Southeast.
- Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 167 miles [268.8 km]<2> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Fisher Heights to Harrisburg, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 10 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 7 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 208 miles [334.7 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 12 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,930 miles [9,543.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,650 miles [10,702.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,526 miles [7,283.9 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Fisher Heights 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Fisher Heights) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Fisher Heights 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 Fisher Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.9253, Longitude: -79.9539 In this case, the coordinates for Fisher Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.535 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.618 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.227 degrees. |
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