Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Hoover, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hoover and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Hoover
- 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 Hoover:
- 39.877496, -79.852561
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Hoover
- 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 Fayette County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Fayette County
- Since Hoover is near Greene County and also Washington County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Greene County
- eBird sighting report for Washington 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Hoover ...
We found eighteen communities that share the name Hoover.
There are two communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Hoover.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another sixteen communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Blair County
- Warren County
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Jefferson County
- This Hoover is located in Jefferson County and lies 591 miles [951.1 km]<2> to the southwest of the Hoover that is located in Fayette County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Hoover.
- Madison County
- This Hoover is located in Madison County and lies 512 miles [824 km] to the southwest of the Hoover that is located in Fayette County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Hoover.
- Arkansas
- Idaho
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Missouri
- Platte County
- This Hoover is located in Platte County and lies 787 miles [1,266.6 km]<2> to the west of the Hoover that is located in Fayette County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Platte County community of Hoover.
- Vernon 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 Missouri community of Hoover [Vernon County].
- Nebraska
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Gray County
- This Hoover is located in Gray County and lies 1,181 miles [1,900.6 km]<2> to the west of the Hoover that is located in Fayette County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gray County community of Hoover.
- Lamar County
- This Hoover is located in Lamar County and lies 959 miles [1,543.4 km] to the west southwest of the Hoover that is located in Fayette County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lamar County community of Hoover.
- Virginia
- Alabama
Curious and Interesting Names Near Hoover ...
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.
- Cats Run Junction
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cats Run Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cats Run Junction
- Cats Run Junction is located in Fayette County
- Edenborn
(Less than 2 miles to the west) - Filbert
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north) - Gates
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west) - Grays Landing
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grays Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grays Landing
- Grays Landing is located in Fayette County
- Griffin
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest) - Hays
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east) - Herbert
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north) - Highhouse
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highhouse
- Highhouse is located in Fayette County
- Lewis Crossing
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lewis Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewis Crossing
- Lewis Crossing is located in Fayette County
- Live Easy
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west) - Masontown
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Masontown have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masontown
- Masontown is located in Fayette County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,260 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Masontown <5>
- Continue List (10 more) ...
- Newcomer
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east) - Old Frame
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south) - Puritan
(Less than 2 miles to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Puritan
- Puritan is located in Fayette County
- Ralph
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest) - Sandy Hill ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sandy Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Hill
- Sandy Hill is located in Fayette County
- Shamrock
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast) - Smiley
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast) - Woodside
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south) - York Run
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast) - York Run Junction
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for York Run Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for York Run Junction
- York Run Junction is located in Fayette County
- Newcomer
How Far From Hoover 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 Hoover to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Hoover and extending to:
- Uniontown, which is the Seat of Fayette County, lies just to the East Northeast.
- Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 159 miles [255.9 km]<2> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Hoover to Harrisburg, with an average speed<6>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 7 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 164 miles [263.9 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take about three hours, a buggy would take 7 days and walking would take 10 days.
- The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,972 miles [9,611 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,688 miles [10,763.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,563 miles [7,343.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Hoover. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Fayette County: www.fayettepa.org
The official website for State of Pennsylvania: https://www.pa.gov/
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 Hoover 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- Hoover) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hoover. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.8775, Longitude: -79.8526 |
| <3> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Hoover, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <6> | 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. |
| <7> | 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 Hoover to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.526 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.449 degrees. |
| <10> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.565 degrees. |