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 Friendly Acres:
41.422590, -75.054338
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 Friendly Acres
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 Pike County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found three communities that are also named Friendly Acres.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Friendly Acres is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
North Carolina
Guilford County
This Friendly Acres is located in Guilford County and lies 448 miles [721 km]<1> to the southwest of the Friendly Acres that is located in Pike County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Guilford County community of Friendly Acres.
Ohio
Washington County
This Friendly Acres is located in Washington County and lies 364 miles [585.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Friendly Acres that is located in Pike County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Friendly Acres.
Texas
Hidalgo County
This Friendly Acres is located in Hidalgo County and lies 1,686 miles [2,713.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Friendly Acres that is located in Pike County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hidalgo County community of Friendly Acres.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Friendly Acres ...
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.
Blooming Grove (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
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 Friendly Acres to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Friendly Acres and extending to:
Milford, which is the Seat of Pike County, lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> to the east southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Friendly Acres to Milford, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 123 miles [197.9 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 White House (Washington, DC) is 203 miles [326.7 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 12 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,709 miles [9,187.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,420 miles [10,332 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,296 miles [6,913.7 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Friendly Acres) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Friendly Acres 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 Friendly Acres. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.4226, Longitude: -75.0543 In this case, the coordinates for Friendly Acres have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.496 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.258 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.81 degrees.