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 Saint Albans:
39.988722, -75.389916
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 Saint Albans
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 Saint Albans.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Saint Albans is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, nine are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maine
Somerset County
This Saint Albans is located in Somerset County and lies 456 miles [733.9 km]<1> to the northeast of the Saint Albans that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Somerset County community of Saint Albans.
Minnesota
Hennepin 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 Minnesota community of Saint Albans [Hennepin County].
Missouri
Franklin County
This Saint Albans is located in Franklin County and lies 826 miles [1,329.3 km]<1> to the west of the Saint Albans that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Saint Albans.
Saint Louis 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 Missouri community of Saint Albans [Saint Louis County].
New York
Queens County
This Saint Albans is located in Queens County and lies 98 miles [157.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Saint Albans that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Queens County community of Saint Albans.
Newfoundland and Labrador
This Saint Albans lies 1,109 miles [1,784.8 km]<1> to the northeast of the Saint Albans that is located in Delaware County.
Ontario
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 Ontario community of Saint Albans.
South Carolina
Greenville 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 South Carolina community of Saint Albans [Greenville County].
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Saint Albans is located in Salt Lake County and lies 1,910 miles [3,073.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Saint Albans that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Saint Albans.
Vermont
Franklin County
This Saint Albans is located in Franklin County and lies 353 miles [568.1 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Saint Albans that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Saint Albans.
West Virginia
Kanawha County
This Saint Albans is located in Kanawha County and lies 361 miles [581 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Saint Albans that is located in Delaware County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kanawha County community of Saint Albans.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Saint Albans ...
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 Saint Albans to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Saint Albans and extending to:
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 81 miles [130.4 km]<1> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Saint Albans to Harrisburg, with an average speed<4>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 115 miles [185.1 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,782 miles [9,305.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,488 miles [10,441.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,364 miles [7,023.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Saint Albans) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Saint Albans 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>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>
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.
<5>
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 Saint Albans 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 Saint Albans. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9887, Longitude: -75.3899 In this case, the coordinates for Saint Albans have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.834 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.411 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.576 degrees.