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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 Sidley, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Sidley and the surrounding area.
- 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 Sidley:
- 40.065661, -75.562423
- 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 Sidley
- 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 Erie County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Erie County
- Since Sidley is near Chester County and also Montgomery County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Chester County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Montgomery 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 Sidley
Communities Also Named Sidley ...
We found one communities that are also named Sidley.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania that is also named Sidley.
Beyond Pennsylvania.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Chester 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 Sidley [Chester County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sidley ...
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.
- Cedar Hollow
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Cedar Hollow is located in Chester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Hollow
- Chester Springs
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Corner Store
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Corner Store is located in Chester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corner Store
- Glen Craig
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Glen Craig is located in Chester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Craig
- Green Tree
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Green Tree is located in Chester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Tree
- Hallman
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Hallman is located in Chester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hallman
- Hershey Mill
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Hershey Mill is located in Chester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hershey Mill
- Hollow Run Farms
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Hollow Run Farms is located in Chester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollow Run Farms
- Ironsides
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Ironsides is located in Chester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ironsides
- Knickerbocker
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Knickerbocker is located in Chester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knickerbocker
- Lees
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Lees is located in Chester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lees
- Merlin
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Merlin is located in Chester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merlin
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- Pikeland
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Pikeland is located in Chester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pikeland
- Planebrook
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Planebrook is located in Chester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Planebrook
- Ronnie Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Ronnie Park is located in Chester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ronnie Park
- Ship Road
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Ship Road is located in Chester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ship Road
- Williams Corner
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Williams Corner is located in Chester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams Corner
How Far From Sidley 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 Sidley to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Sidley and extending to:
- Erie, which is the Seat of Erie County, lies 274 miles [441 km]<3> to the west northwest. If you could drive a straight line from Sidley to Erie, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 16 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 11 days.
- Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 71 miles [114.3 km] to the west northwest (WNW). Driving would take less than two hours, a buggy would take about three full days and walking would take 4 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 112 miles [180.2 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 5,786 miles [9,311.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,493 miles [10,449.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,369 miles [7,031.2 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 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 Sidley 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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- Sidley) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Sidley 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 Sidley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.0657, Longitude: -75.5624 In this case, the coordinates for Sidley have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.93 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.532 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.617 degrees. |
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