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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 Grandview Heights:
39.907322, -76.665245
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 Grandview 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 York County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eleven communities that are also named Grandview Heights.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania that is also named Grandview Heights.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
Lancaster County
This Grandview Heights is located in Lancaster County and lies 22 miles [35.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Grandview Heights that is located in York County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lancaster County community of Grandview Heights.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Kentucky
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 Kentucky community of Grandview Heights [Franklin County].
Mississippi
Rankin County
This Grandview Heights is located in Rankin County and lies 917 miles [1,475.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Grandview Heights that is located in York County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rankin County community of Grandview Heights.
North Carolina
Watauga County
This Grandview Heights is located in Watauga County and lies 373 miles [600.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Grandview Heights that is located in York County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Watauga County community of Grandview Heights.
Ohio
Champaign County
This Grandview Heights is located in Champaign County and lies 386 miles [621.2 km]<1> to the west of the Grandview Heights that is located in York County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Champaign County community of Grandview Heights.
Franklin County
This Grandview Heights is located in Franklin County and lies 337 miles [542.3 km] to the west of the Grandview Heights that is located in York County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Grandview Heights.
Jefferson County
This Grandview Heights is located in Jefferson County and lies 214 miles [344.4 km] to the west of the Grandview Heights that is located in York County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Grandview Heights.
Oklahoma
Muskogee County
This Grandview Heights is located in Muskogee County and lies 1,058 miles [1,702.7 km]<1> to the west of the Grandview Heights that is located in York County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Muskogee County community of Grandview Heights.
Tennessee
Blount County
This Grandview Heights is located in Blount County and lies 488 miles [785.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Grandview Heights that is located in York County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blount County community of Grandview Heights.
Virginia
Radford City
This Grandview Heights is located in Radford City and lies 284 miles [457.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the Grandview Heights that is located in York County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Radford City community of Grandview Heights.
West Virginia
Cabell County
This Grandview Heights is located in Cabell County and lies 323 miles [519.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Grandview Heights that is located in York County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cabell County community of Grandview Heights.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Grandview 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.
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Grandview Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Grandview Heights and extending to:
York, which is the Seat of York County, lies just to the Northwest.
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 28 miles [45.1 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could walk a straight line from Grandview Heights to Harrisburg, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 72 miles [115.9 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 4 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,839 miles [9,397 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,548 miles [10,538 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,424 miles [7,119.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Grandview Heights) 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 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 Grandview 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.
<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 Grandview 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 Grandview Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9073, Longitude: -76.6652 In this case, the coordinates for Grandview Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.599 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.266 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.158 degrees.