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 Hughesville:
41.279519, -77.185248
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 Hughesville
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 Lycoming County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found seven communities that are also named Hughesville.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Hughesville is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these seven communities, six are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maryland
Charles County
This Hughesville is located in Charles County and lies 190 miles [305.8 km]<1> to the south of the Hughesville that is located in Lycoming County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Charles County community of Hughesville.
Missouri
Pettis County
This Hughesville is located in Pettis County and lies 866 miles [1,393.7 km]<1> to the west of the Hughesville that is located in Lycoming County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pettis County community of Hughesville.
Montana
Judith Basin County
This Hughesville is located in Judith Basin County and lies 1,690 miles [2,719.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Hughesville that is located in Lycoming County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Judith Basin County community of Hughesville.
Meagher 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 Montana community of Hughesville [Meagher County].
New Jersey
Hunterdon County
This Hughesville is located in Hunterdon County and lies 115 miles [185.1 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Hughesville that is located in Lycoming County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hunterdon County community of Hughesville.
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 Hughesville.
Virginia
Loudoun County
This Hughesville is located in Loudoun County and lies 152 miles [244.6 km]<1> to the south of the Hughesville that is located in Lycoming County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Loudoun County community of Hughesville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Hughesville ...
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 & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Hughesville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Hughesville and extending to:
Williamsport, which is the Seat of Lycoming County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the east southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Hughesville to Williamsport, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 70 miles [112.7 km] to the south southeast (SSE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take about three full days and walking would take three full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 164 miles [263.9 km] to the south (S). Driving would take about three hours, a buggy would take 7 days and walking would take 10 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,803 miles [9,339 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,518 miles [10,489.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,393 miles [7,069.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hughesville) 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 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 Hughesville 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 Hughesville 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 Hughesville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.2795, Longitude: -77.1852 In this case, the coordinates for Hughesville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.805 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.714 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.83 degrees.