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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 Good Spring, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Good Spring 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 Good Spring:
- 40.624810, -76.484959
- 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 Good Spring
- 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 Schuylkill County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Schuylkill County
- Since Good Spring is near Dauphin County and also Lebanon County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Dauphin County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lebanon 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 Good Spring
Communities Also Named Good Spring ...
We found one communities that are also named Good Spring.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Good Spring is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, there is another community also named Good Spring in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- North Carolina
- Surry 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 North Carolina community of Good Spring [Surry County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Good Spring ...
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.
- Echo Valley
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Echo Valley is located in Schuylkill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo Valley
- Fountain
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Fountain is located in Schuylkill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountain
- Gold Mine
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Gold Mine is located in Lebanon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Mine
- Greenfield
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Greenfield is located in Dauphin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenfield
- Line Mountain
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Line Mountain is located in Northumberland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Line Mountain
- Mabel
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Mabel is located in Schuylkill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mabel
- Middle Creek ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Middle Creek is located in Schuylkill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middle Creek
- Outwood
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Outwood is located in Schuylkill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Outwood
- Paradise
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Paradise is located in Schuylkill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
- Ravine
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Ravine is located in Schuylkill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravine
- Spring Glen
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Spring Glen is located in Schuylkill County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Glen
- Tower City
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Twin Grove Park
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Twin Grove Park is located in Lebanon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Grove Park
How Far From Good Spring to ...
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 Good Spring to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Good Spring and extending to:
- Pottsville, which is the Seat of Schuylkill County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<3> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Good Spring to Pottsville, with an average speed<4> 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 31 miles [49.9 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take just over a day and walking would take most of two days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 122 miles [196.3 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,801 miles [9,335.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,512 miles [10,480 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,388 miles [7,061.8 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 Good Spring 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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- Good Spring) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Good Spring 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 Good Spring. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6248, Longitude: -76.4850 In this case, the coordinates for Good Spring have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.434 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.191 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.787 degrees. |
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