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 Franklinville:
40.010668, -75.135176
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 Franklinville
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 twelve communities that are also named Franklinville.
There are two communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Franklinville.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
Huntingdon County
This Franklinville is located in Huntingdon County and lies 161 miles [259.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Franklinville that is located in Philadelphia County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Huntingdon County community of Franklinville.
Montgomery County
This Franklinville is located in Montgomery County and lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Franklinville that is located in Philadelphia County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Franklinville.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Lowndes County
This Franklinville is located in Lowndes County and lies 772 miles [1,242.4 km]<1> to the southwest of the Franklinville that is located in Philadelphia County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lowndes County community of Franklinville.
Illinois
McHenry County
This Franklinville is located in McHenry County and lies 712 miles [1,145.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Franklinville that is located in Philadelphia County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the McHenry County community of Franklinville.
Kansas
Ness 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 Kansas community of Franklinville [Ness County].
Maryland
Baltimore County
This Franklinville is located in Baltimore County and lies 76 miles [122.3 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Franklinville that is located in Philadelphia County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Franklinville.
Carroll County
This Franklinville is located in Carroll County and lies 111 miles [178.6 km] to the west southwest of the Franklinville that is located in Philadelphia County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Franklinville.
Frederick 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 Maryland community of Franklinville [Frederick County].
Missouri
Shelby County
Although located in Shelby County, we don't know the location within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shelby County community of Franklinville.
New Jersey
Gloucester County
This Franklinville is located in Gloucester County and lies 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> to the south of the Franklinville that is located in Philadelphia County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gloucester County community of Franklinville.
New York
Cattaraugus County
This Franklinville is located in Cattaraugus County and lies 235 miles [378.2 km]<1> to the northwest of the Franklinville that is located in Philadelphia County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cattaraugus County community of Franklinville.
North Carolina
Randolph County
This Franklinville is located in Randolph County and lies 385 miles [619.6 km]<1> to the southwest of the Franklinville that is located in Philadelphia County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Randolph County community of Franklinville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Franklinville ...
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.
Branchtown ‑ Historic (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
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 Franklinville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Franklinville and extending to:
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 94 miles [151.3 km]<1> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Franklinville to Harrisburg, with an average speed<3>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 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 127 miles [204.4 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 8 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,770 miles [9,285.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,476 miles [10,422.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,352 miles [7,003.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
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 from Point A (ie- Franklinville) 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 Franklinville 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 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.
<4>
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 Franklinville 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 Franklinville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.0107, Longitude: -75.1352 In this case, the coordinates for Franklinville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.681 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.242 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.457 degrees.