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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 Hillside Village, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hillside Village and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Hillside Village:
    • 40.279256, -76.878029
    • 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 Hillside Village
  • 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 Dauphin County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Dauphin County
    • Since Hillside Village is near Cumberland County and also York County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cumberland County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for York 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 Hillside Village

Communities Also Named Hillside Village ...

We found two communities that are also named Hillside Village.

There is one other community in Pennsylvania that is also named Hillside Village.

Beyond Pennsylvania, there is another community also named Hillside Village in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
    • Bucks 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 Hillside Village [Bucks County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Utah
      • Salt Lake County
      • This Hillside Village is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,823 miles [2,933.8 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Hillside Village that is located in Dauphin County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Hillside Village.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Hillside Village ...

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.

  • Cedar Cliff
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Cedar Cliff is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Cliff
  • Chartwood
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Chartwood is located in Dauphin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chartwood
  • Coventry Close
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Coventry Close is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coventry Close
  • Enola
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Fort Couch
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Fort Couch is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Couch
  • Fort Hunter
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Fort Hunter is located in Dauphin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Hunter
  • Fox Chase
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Fox Chase is located in Dauphin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Chase
  • Harrisburg
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Haven Croft
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Haven Croft is located in Dauphin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haven Croft
  • Jackson Lick
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Jackson Lick is located in Dauphin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jackson Lick
  • Kent Gardens
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Kent Gardens is located in Dauphin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent Gardens
  • Kingwood
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Kingwood is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingwood
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Knob Point
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Knob Point is located in Cumberland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knob Point
    • Lakeview Heights
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Lakeview Heights is located in Dauphin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview Heights
    • Locust Lane Gardens
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Locust Lane Gardens is located in Dauphin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Lane Gardens
    • Lower Allen
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Lower Allen is located in Cumberland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Allen
    • Overview
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Overview is located in Cumberland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overview
    • Pleasant Hills
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Pleasant Hills is located in Dauphin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hills
    • Poplar Gardens
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Poplar Gardens is located in Dauphin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Gardens
    • Progress
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Progress is located in Dauphin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Progress
    • Ridgeview
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Ridgeview is located in Dauphin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgeview
    • Rockville
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Rockville is located in Dauphin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockville
    • Rustic Hills
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Rustic Hills is located in Dauphin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rustic Hills
    • Spring Valley
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Spring Valley is located in Dauphin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Valley
    • Summerdale
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Summerdale is located in Cumberland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerdale
    • Twin Lakes
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Twin Lakes is located in Dauphin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Lakes
    • Twin Lakes Park
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Twin Lakes Park is located in Dauphin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Lakes Park

How Far From Hillside Village to ...

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

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

  • Harrisburg, which is the Seat of Dauphin County, lies just to the North Northwest.
  • Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies just to the north northwest (NNW).
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 95 miles [152.9 km]<2> to the south (S). If you could drive a straight line from Hillside Village to White House, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take three full days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,832 miles [9,385.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,543 miles [10,529.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,419 miles [7,111.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock Creek 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 Hillside Village 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 '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- Hillside Village) 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 Hillside Village 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 Hillside Village. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.2793, Longitude: -76.8780       In this case, the coordinates for Hillside Village have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.698 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.436 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.101 degrees.