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 High Meadows:
40.278790, -75.713454
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 High Meadows
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 Berks County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named High Meadows.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania that is also named High Meadows.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
Delaware 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 Pennsylvania community of High Meadows [Delaware County].
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Illinois
Peoria 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 Illinois community of High Meadows [Peoria County].
Maryland
Frederick 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 Maryland community of High Meadows [Frederick County].
North Carolina
Forsyth County
This High Meadows is located in Forsyth County and lies 374 miles [601.9 km]<2> to the southwest of the High Meadows that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Forsyth County community of High Meadows.
Nash County
This High Meadows is located in Nash County and lies 316 miles [508.6 km] to the south southwest of the High Meadows that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nash County community of High Meadows.
Virginia
Washington County
This High Meadows is located in Washington County and lies 428 miles [688.8 km]<2> to the southwest of the High Meadows that is located in Berks County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of High Meadows.
Curious and Interesting Names Near High Meadows ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as High Meadows to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in High Meadows and extending to:
Reading, which is the Seat of Berks County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the west northwest. If you could walk a straight line from High Meadows to Reading, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 61 miles [98.2 km] to the west (W). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take about three full days and walking would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 118 miles [189.9 km] to the southwest (SW). 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 5,784 miles [9,308.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,491 miles [10,446.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,368 miles [7,029.6 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 High Meadows 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>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- High Meadows) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 High Meadows 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 High Meadows. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.2788, Longitude: -75.7135 In this case, the coordinates for High Meadows have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.001 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.646 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.593 degrees.