Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Mill City, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Mill City and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Mill City
- 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 Mill City:
- 41.398134, -75.979089
- 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 Mill City
- 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 Wyoming County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Wyoming County
- Since Mill City is near Luzerne County and also Lackawanna County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Luzerne County
- eBird sighting report for Lackawanna 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 Mill City ...
We found six communities that share the name Mill City.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Mill City is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another six communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Connecticut
- Nevada
- Humboldt 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 Nevada community of Mill City [Humboldt County].
- Pershing County
- This Mill City is located in Pershing County and lies 2,169 miles [3,490.7 km]<3> to the west northwest of the Mill City that is located in Wyoming County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pershing County community of Mill City.
- Oregon
- Utah
Curious and Interesting Names Near Mill City ...
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.
- Evans Falls
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Evans Falls have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evans Falls
- Evans Falls is located in Wyoming County
- Fern Brook
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fern Brook have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fern Brook
- Fern Brook is located in Luzerne County
- Harveys Lake
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harveys Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harveys Lake
- Harveys Lake is located in Luzerne County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,812 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Harveys Lake <5>
- Hays Corner
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hays Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hays Corner
- Hays Corner is located in Luzerne County
- Huntsville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Huntsville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntsville
- Huntsville is located in Luzerne County
- Jenks
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jenks
- Jenks is located in Wyoming County
- Kunkle
(Less than 2 miles to the south) - Lake
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest) - Lockville
(5 miles [8 km] to the east) - Maplewood Heights
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Maplewood Heights have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maplewood Heights
- Maplewood Heights is located in Luzerne County
- Orange
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orange
- Orange is located in Luzerne County
- Outlet
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest) - Continue List (4 more) ...
- Ruggles
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west) - Shavertown
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shavertown have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shavertown
- Shavertown is located in Luzerne County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Shavertown <5>
- Trucksville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Trucksville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trucksville
- Trucksville is located in Luzerne County
- Trucksville Gardens
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Trucksville Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trucksville Gardens
- Trucksville Gardens is located in Luzerne County
- Ruggles
How Far From Mill City to ...
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 Mill City to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic community of Mill City once stood, the straight-line distance beginning in Mill City and extending to:
- Tunkhannock, which is the Seat of Wyoming County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> to the north. If you could walk a straight line from Mill City to Tunkhannock, with an average speed<6> 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 90 miles [144.8 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 181 miles [291.3 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 7 days and walking would take 11 days.
- The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,748 miles [9,250.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,461 miles [10,398 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,337 miles [6,979.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<10>
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: https://www.pa.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Mill City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Mill City 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> | 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- Mill City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mill City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.3981, Longitude: -75.9791 In this case, the coordinates for Mill City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Mill City 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 307.059 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.889 degrees. |
| <10> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.235 degrees. |