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 Rose Valley:
39.895390, -75.384915
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 Rose 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 Delaware County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eleven communities that are also named Rose Valley.
There are two communities within Pennsylvania that are also named Rose Valley.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of nine communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these nine communities, nine are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
Lycoming 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 Rose Valley [Lycoming County].
Montgomery County
This Rose Valley is located in Montgomery County and lies 20 miles [32.2 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Rose Valley that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Rose Valley.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Florida
Hillsborough County
This Rose Valley is located in Hillsborough County and lies 906 miles [1,458.1 km]<2> to the south southwest of the Rose Valley that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Rose Valley.
Kansas
Osborne 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 Kansas community of Rose Valley [Osborne County].
Pratt 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 Kansas community of Rose Valley [Pratt County].
Stafford County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Stafford County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stafford County community of Rose Valley.
Nevada
Lincoln County
This Rose Valley is located in Lincoln County and lies 2,076 miles [3,341 km]<2> to the west of the Rose Valley that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of Rose Valley.
Prince Edward Island
This Rose Valley lies 744 miles [1,197.4 km]<2> to the northeast of the Rose Valley that is located in Delaware County.
Saskatchewan
This Rose Valley lies 1,592 miles [2,562.1 km]<2> to the northwest of the Rose Valley that is located in Delaware County.
Tennessee
Stewart 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 Tennessee community of Rose Valley [Stewart County].
Washington
Cowlitz County
This Rose Valley is located in Cowlitz County and lies 2,397 miles [3,857.6 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Rose Valley that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cowlitz County community of Rose Valley.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Rose 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.
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 Rose Valley to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Rose Valley and extending to:
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 83 miles [133.6 km]<2> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Rose Valley to Harrisburg, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 111 miles [178.6 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,786 miles [9,311.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,491 miles [10,446.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,368 miles [7,029.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<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 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 Rose 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.
<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 drawn from Point A (ie- Rose Valley) 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 Rose Valley, 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 Rose 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 Rose Valley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.8954, Longitude: -75.3849 In this case, the coordinates for Rose Valley have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.839 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.402 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.613 degrees.