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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 Hewitt, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hewitt 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 Hewitt:
    • 39.754809, -78.515294
    • 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 Hewitt
  • 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 Bedford County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Bedford County
    • Since Hewitt is near Allegany County and also Fulton County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Allegany County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Fulton 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 Hewitt

Communities Also Named Hewitt ...

We found ten communities that are also named Hewitt.

Within Pennsylvania, the name Hewitt is unique.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, eight are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Los Angeles County
      • This Hewitt is located in Los Angeles County and lies 2,214 miles [3,563.1 km]<1> to the west of the Hewitt that is located in Bedford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Los Angeles County community of Hewitt.
    • Minnesota
      • Todd County
      • This Hewitt is located in Todd County and lies 948 miles [1,525.7 km]<1> to the northwest of the Hewitt that is located in Bedford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Todd County community of Hewitt.
    • New Brunswick
      • This Hewitt lies 695 miles [1,118.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Hewitt that is located in Bedford County.
    • New Jersey
      • Passaic County
      • This Hewitt is located in Passaic County and lies 240 miles [386.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Hewitt that is located in Bedford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Passaic County community of Hewitt.
    • North Carolina
      • Swain County
      • This Hewitt is located in Swain County and lies 416 miles [669.5 km]<1> to the southwest of the Hewitt that is located in Bedford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Swain County community of Hewitt.
    • Ohio
      • Darke County
      • This Hewitt is located in Darke County and lies 327 miles [526.3 km]<1> to the west of the Hewitt that is located in Bedford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Darke County community of Hewitt.
    • Oklahoma
      • Carter County
      • This Hewitt is located in Carter County and lies 1,108 miles [1,783.2 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Hewitt that is located in Bedford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carter County community of Hewitt.
    • Ontario
      • 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 Ontario community of Hewitt.
    • Texas
      • McLennan County
      • This Hewitt is located in McLennan County and lies 1,191 miles [1,916.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Hewitt that is located in Bedford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the McLennan County community of Hewitt.
    • Wisconsin
      • Wood County
      • This Hewitt is located in Wood County and lies 681 miles [1,096 km]<1> to the northwest of the Hewitt that is located in Bedford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wood County community of Hewitt.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Hewitt ...

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.

  • Centerville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Centerville is located in Bedford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
  • Dickens
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Dickens is located in Allegany County (MD)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dickens
  • Five Forks
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Five Forks is located in Bedford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Forks
  • Patience
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Patience is located in Bedford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patience
  • Piney Grove
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Piney Grove is located in Allegany County (MD)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piney Grove
  • Pleasant Grove
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Pleasant Grove is located in Allegany County (MD)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Grove
  • Pumpkin Center
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Pumpkin Center is located in Allegany County (MD)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pumpkin Center
  • Rainsburg
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Rainsburg is located in Bedford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainsburg
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 128 people
  • Robinsonville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Robinsonville is located in Bedford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinsonville
  • Rush
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Rush is located in Allegany County (MD)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rush
  • Silver Mills
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Silver Mills is located in Bedford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Mills
  • Town Creek ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Town Creek is located in Allegany County (MD)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Town Creek
  • Twiggtown
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Twiggtown is located in Allegany County (MD)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twiggtown
  • Yonkers
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Yonkers is located in Allegany County (MD)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yonkers

How Far From Hewitt to ...

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 Hewitt to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Hewitt and extending to:

  • Bedford, which is the Seat of Bedford County, lies 16 miles [25.7 km]<1> to the north. If you could walk a straight line from Hewitt to Bedford, 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 five to six hours.
  • Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 93 miles [149.7 km] to the east northeast (ENE). 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 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 98 miles [157.7 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,923 miles [9,532.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,635 miles [10,678 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,510 miles [7,258.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Hewitt) 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 Hewitt 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 Hewitt 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 Hewitt. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.7548, Longitude: -78.5153       In this case, the coordinates for Hewitt have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.72 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.514 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.021 degrees.