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website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
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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 Fox Chase:
40.081222, -75.080173
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.
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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 Philadelphia County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eight communities that are also named Fox Chase.
There are two communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Fox Chase.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
Dauphin County
This Fox Chase is located in Dauphin County and lies 93 miles [149.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Fox Chase that is located in Philadelphia County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dauphin County community of Fox Chase.
Lancaster County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Fox Chase [Lancaster County].
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Fox Chase is located in Hillsborough County and lies 922 miles [1,483.8 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Fox Chase that is located in Philadelphia County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Fox Chase.
Kentucky
Bullitt County
This Fox Chase is located in Bullitt County and lies 585 miles [941.5 km]<1> to the west of the Fox Chase that is located in Philadelphia County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bullitt County community of Fox Chase.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Fox Chase is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 104 miles [167.4 km]<1> to the southwest of the Fox Chase that is located in Philadelphia County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Fox Chase.
New Jersey
Burlington County
This Fox Chase is located in Burlington County and lies 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> to the southeast of the Fox Chase that is located in Philadelphia County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Burlington County community of Fox Chase.
Ohio
Franklin County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Fox Chase [Franklin County].
Virginia
Loudoun County
This Fox Chase is located in Loudoun County and lies 151 miles [243 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Fox Chase that is located in Philadelphia County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Loudoun County community of Fox Chase.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fox Chase ...
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.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Fox Chase to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Fox Chase and extending to:
Philadelphia, which is the Seat of Philadelphia County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the south southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Fox Chase to Philadelphia, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 96 miles [154.5 km] to the west (W). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 132 miles [212.4 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 8 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,765 miles [9,277.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,471 miles [10,414.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,347 miles [6,995.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Fox Chase) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Fox Chase 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.
<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 Fox Chase 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 Fox Chase. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.0812, Longitude: -75.0802 In this case, the coordinates for Fox Chase have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.642 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.209 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.404 degrees.