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 Montgomery Ferry:
40.498973, -76.972755
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 Montgomery Ferry
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 Perry County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Montgomery Ferry.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Montgomery Ferry is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Louisiana
East Carroll Parish
This Montgomery Ferry is located in East Carroll Parish and lies 965 miles [1,553 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Montgomery Ferry that is located in Perry County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Carroll Parish community of Montgomery Ferry.
Grant Parish
This Montgomery Ferry is located in Grant Parish and lies 1,075 miles [1,730 km] to the west southwest of the Montgomery Ferry that is located in Perry County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grant Parish community of Montgomery Ferry.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Montgomery Ferry ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Montgomery Ferry to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Montgomery Ferry and extending to:
New Bloomfield, which is the Seat of Perry County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the west southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Montgomery Ferry to New Bloomfield, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 15 miles [24.1 km] to the south southeast (SSE). The buggy would take four to five hours and walking would take most of a day.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 110 miles [177 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,827 miles [9,377.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,539 miles [10,523.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,414 miles [7,103.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Montgomery Ferry) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
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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.
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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 Montgomery Ferry 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 Montgomery Ferry. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.4990, Longitude: -76.9728 In this case, the coordinates for Montgomery Ferry have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.738 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.516 degrees.
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The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.053 degrees.