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 Martins:
40.067889, -75.196844
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 Martins
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 Philadelphia County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named Saint Martins.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Saint Martins is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of six communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, four are located in the United States and two are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Maryland
Worcester 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 Maryland community of Saint Martins [Worcester County].
Missouri
Cole County
This Saint Martins is located in Cole County and lies 919 miles [1,479 km]<2> to the west of the Saint Martins that is located in Philadelphia County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cole County community of Saint Martins.
Morgan 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 Missouri community of Saint Martins [Morgan County].
New Brunswick
This Saint Martins lies 610 miles [981.7 km]<2> to the northeast of the Saint Martins that is located in Philadelphia County.
Nova Scotia
We haven't found the location of this community yet.
Wisconsin
Milwaukee County
This Saint Martins is located in Milwaukee County and lies 692 miles [1,113.7 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Saint Martins that is located in Philadelphia County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Milwaukee County community of Saint Martins.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Saint Martins ...
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.
Branchtown ‑ Historic (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs 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 Martins to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Saint Martins and extending to:
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 90 miles [144.8 km]<2> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Saint Martins 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 6 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 127 miles [204.4 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 8 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,770 miles [9,285.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,476 miles [10,422.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,353 miles [7,005.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
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 Saint Martins 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Saint Martins) 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.
<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 Martins 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 Martins. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.0679, Longitude: -75.1968 In this case, the coordinates for Saint Martins have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.713 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.286 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.459 degrees.