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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 Long Valley, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Long Valley 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 Long Valley:
- 41.651112, -76.566630
- 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 Long Valley
- 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 Bradford County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Bradford County
- Since Long Valley is near Sullivan County and also Lycoming County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Sullivan County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lycoming 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 Long Valley
Communities Also Named Long Valley ...
We found six communities that are also named Long Valley.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Long Valley is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arizona
- Coconino County
- This Long Valley is located in Coconino County and lies 1,938 miles [3,118.9 km]<1> to the west of the Long Valley that is located in Bradford County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Coconino County community of Long Valley.
- California
- Lassen 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 California community of Long Valley [Lassen County].
- Nevada
- Storey County
- This community is historic<3> and although located in Storey County, we don't know where within the county.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Storey County community of Long Valley.
- Washoe County
- This community is historic and although located in Washoe County, we don't know where within the county.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washoe County community of Long Valley.
- New Jersey
- Morris County
- This Long Valley is located in Morris County and lies 110 miles [177 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Long Valley that is located in Bradford County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Morris County community of Long Valley.
- South Dakota
- Jackson County
- This Long Valley is located in Jackson County and lies 1,269 miles [2,042.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Long Valley that is located in Bradford County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Long Valley.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Long Valley ...
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.
- Carbon
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Carbon is located in Bradford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbon
- Cold Spring
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Cold Spring is located in Bradford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring
- Coveytown
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Coveytown is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coveytown
- Evergreen
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Highland
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Highland is located in Bradford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland
- Kellogg
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Kellogg is located in Bradford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kellogg
- Laddsburg
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Leroy
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Leroy is located in Bradford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leroy
- Luthers Mills
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Marshview
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Minerville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Minerville is located in Bradford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minerville
- Mountain Lake
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Overshot
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Overshot is located in Bradford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overshot
How Far From Long Valley 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 Long Valley to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Long Valley and extending to:
- Towanda, which is the Seat of Bradford County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Long Valley to Towanda, with an average speed<4> 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 95 miles [152.9 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 191 miles [307.4 km] to the south (S). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 11 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,762 miles [9,273 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,477 miles [10,423.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,352 miles [7,003.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Long Valley) 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 Long Valley 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> | 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 Long Valley, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <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 Long Valley 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 Long Valley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.6511, Longitude: -76.5666 In this case, the coordinates for Long Valley have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.394 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.308 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.393 degrees. |
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