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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 Lower Hillville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Lower Hillville 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 Lower Hillville:
    • 41.024508, -79.589769
    • 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 Lower Hillville
  • 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 Clarion County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Clarion County
    • Since Lower Hillville is near Armstrong County and also Butler County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Armstrong County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Butler 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 Lower Hillville

Communities Also Named Lower Hillville ...

We found one communities that are also named Lower Hillville.

There is one other community in Pennsylvania that is also named Lower Hillville.

Beyond Pennsylvania.

  • Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
    • Armstrong 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 Lower Hillville [Armstrong County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Lower Hillville ...

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.

  • Bradys Bend
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Bradys Bend is located in Armstrong County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradys Bend
  • Catfish
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Catfish is located in Clarion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catfish
  • Diamond
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Diamond is located in Clarion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond
  • Dutch Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Dutch Hill is located in Clarion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutch Hill
  • Fredericksburg
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Fredericksburg is located in Armstrong County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fredericksburg
  • Greenville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Greenville is located in Armstrong County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenville
  • Huey
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Huey is located in Clarion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huey
  • Maple Grove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Maple Grove is located in Clarion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Grove
  • Queenstown
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Queenstown is located in Armstrong County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Queenstown
  • Riverview
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Riverview is located in Clarion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
  • Sandy Hollow
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Sandy Hollow is located in Clarion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Hollow
  • Sarah Furnace
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Sarah Furnace is located in Clarion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sarah Furnace
  • Wildcat
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Wildcat is located in Clarion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildcat

How Far From Lower Hillville 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 Lower Hillville to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Lower Hillville and extending to:

  • Clarion, which is the Seat of Clarion County, lies 16 miles [25.7 km]<2> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Lower Hillville to Clarion, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take five to six hours.
  • Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 150 miles [241.4 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 199 miles [320.3 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 12 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,911 miles [9,512.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,631 miles [10,671.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,506 miles [7,251.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 Lower Hillville 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lower Hillville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Lower Hillville 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 Lower Hillville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.0245, Longitude: -79.5898       In this case, the coordinates for Lower Hillville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.303 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.371 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.023 degrees.