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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 Phillipsburg, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Phillipsburg 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 Phillipsburg:
    • 40.693399, -80.282006
    • 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 Phillipsburg
  • 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 Beaver County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Beaver County
    • Since Phillipsburg is near Butler County and also Allegheny County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Butler County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Allegheny 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 Phillipsburg

Communities Also Named Phillipsburg ...

We found sixteen communities that are also named Phillipsburg.

There is one other community in Pennsylvania that is also named Phillipsburg.

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of fifteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fifteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
    • Centre 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 Phillipsburg [Centre County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Jefferson County
      • This Phillipsburg is located in Jefferson County and lies 1,313 miles [2,113.1 km]<2> to the west of the Phillipsburg that is located in Beaver County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Phillipsburg.
    • Georgia
      • Tift County
      • This Phillipsburg is located in Tift County and lies 663 miles [1,067 km]<2> to the south southwest of the Phillipsburg that is located in Beaver County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tift County community of Phillipsburg.
    • Kansas
      • Phillips County
      • This Phillipsburg is located in Phillips County and lies 1,003 miles [1,614.2 km]<2> to the west of the Phillipsburg that is located in Beaver County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Phillips County community of Phillipsburg.
    • Kentucky
      • Marion County
      • This Phillipsburg is located in Marion County and lies 347 miles [558.4 km]<2> to the southwest of the Phillipsburg that is located in Beaver County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Phillipsburg.
    • Missouri
      • Laclede County
      • This Phillipsburg is located in Laclede County and lies 703 miles [1,131.4 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Phillipsburg that is located in Beaver County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Laclede County community of Phillipsburg.
    • Nebraska
      • Custer County
      • This community is historic<3> and although located in Custer County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Custer County community of Phillipsburg.
    • New Jersey
      • Warren County
      • This Phillipsburg is located in Warren County and lies 266 miles [428.1 km]<2> to the east of the Phillipsburg that is located in Beaver County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Phillipsburg.
    • New Mexico
      • Sierra County
      • This community is historic<3> and although located in Sierra County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sierra County community of Phillipsburg.
    • New York
      • Orange County
      • This Phillipsburg is located in Orange County and lies 312 miles [502.1 km]<2> to the east of the Phillipsburg that is located in Beaver County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orange County community of Phillipsburg.
    • Ohio
      • Athens 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 Ohio community of Phillipsburg [Athens County].
      • Montgomery County
      • This Phillipsburg is located in Montgomery County and lies 223 miles [358.9 km]<2> to the west southwest of the Phillipsburg that is located in Beaver County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Phillipsburg.
      • Tuscarawas County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Phillipsburg [Tuscarawas County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Creek County
      • This community is historic<3> and although located in Creek County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Creek County community of Phillipsburg.
    • Ontario
      • This Phillipsburg lies 189 miles [304.2 km]<2> to the north of the Phillipsburg that is located in Beaver County.
    • Texas
      • Washington County
      • This Phillipsburg is located in Washington County and lies 1,160 miles [1,866.8 km]<2> to the southwest of the Phillipsburg that is located in Beaver County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Phillipsburg.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Phillipsburg ...

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.

  • Beaver
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Byersdale
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Byersdale is located in Beaver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Byersdale
  • Doctor Heights
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Doctor Heights is located in Beaver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doctor Heights
  • Economy
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Economy is located in Beaver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Economy
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,022 people
  • Freedom
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Josephtown
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Josephtown is located in Beaver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Josephtown
  • Knob
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Knob is located in Beaver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knob
  • Marion Hill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Marion Hill is located in Beaver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion Hill
  • Merrill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Merrill is located in Beaver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrill
  • Riverview
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Riverview is located in Beaver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
  • Sunflower
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Sunflower is located in Beaver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunflower
  • Unionville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Unionville is located in Beaver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unionville
  • Woodlawn
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Woodlawn is located in Beaver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlawn

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Phillipsburg and extending to:

  • Beaver, which is the Seat of Beaver County, lies just to the West.
  • Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 180 miles [289.7 km]<2> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Phillipsburg to Harrisburg, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take a little over three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 11 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 7 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 212 miles [341.2 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 12 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,954 miles [9,582 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,674 miles [10,740.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,549 miles [7,320.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'

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 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 Phillipsburg 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Phillipsburg) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Phillipsburg, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.
<6>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 Phillipsburg 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 Phillipsburg. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6934, Longitude: -80.2820       In this case, the coordinates for Phillipsburg have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.751 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.828 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.462 degrees.