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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 Smithtown, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Smithtown 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 Smithtown:
    • 41.144506, -78.852809
    • 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 Smithtown
  • 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 Jefferson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Jefferson County
    • Since Smithtown is near Clearfield County and also Elk County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Clearfield County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Elk 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 Smithtown

Communities Also Named Smithtown ...

We found fourteen communities that are also named Smithtown.

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

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of thirteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these thirteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
    • Bucks County
      • This Smithtown is located in Bucks County and lies 203 miles [326.7 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Smithtown that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bucks County community of Smithtown.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Mobile County
      • This Smithtown is located in Mobile County and lies 880 miles [1,416.2 km]<1> to the southwest of the Smithtown that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mobile County community of Smithtown.
    • Mississippi
      • Wayne County
      • This Smithtown is located in Wayne County and lies 865 miles [1,392.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the Smithtown that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Smithtown.
    • New Brunswick
      • This Smithtown lies 719 miles [1,157.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Smithtown that is located in Jefferson County.
    • New Hampshire
      • Rockingham County
      • This Smithtown is located in Rockingham County and lies 426 miles [685.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Smithtown that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockingham County community of Smithtown.
    • New Jersey
      • Hunterdon 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 New Jersey community of Smithtown [Hunterdon County].
    • New York
      • Suffolk County
      • This Smithtown is located in Suffolk County and lies 295 miles [474.8 km]<1> to the east of the Smithtown that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Suffolk County community of Smithtown.
    • North Carolina
      • Beaufort County
      • This Smithtown is located in Beaufort County and lies 405 miles [651.8 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Smithtown that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Beaufort County community of Smithtown.
      • Perquimans County
      • This Smithtown is located in Perquimans County and lies 361 miles [581 km] to the south southeast of the Smithtown that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Perquimans County community of Smithtown.
      • Yadkin County
      • This Smithtown is located in Yadkin County and lies 351 miles [564.9 km] to the south southwest of the Smithtown that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yadkin County community of Smithtown.
    • 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 Smithtown.
    • Tennessee
      • Bledsoe County
      • This Smithtown is located in Bledsoe County and lies 521 miles [838.5 km]<1> to the southwest of the Smithtown that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bledsoe County community of Smithtown.
      • Marion County
      • This Smithtown is located in Marion County and lies 560 miles [901.2 km] to the southwest of the Smithtown that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Smithtown.
    • West Virginia
      • Monongalia County
      • This Smithtown is located in Monongalia County and lies 127 miles [204.4 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Smithtown that is located in Jefferson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monongalia County community of Smithtown.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Smithtown ...

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.

  • Clear Run
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Clear Run is located in Clearfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Run
  • Deemers Crossroads
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Deemers Crossroads is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deemers Crossroads
  • Falls Creek
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Harveys Run
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Harveys Run is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harveys Run
  • Lanes Mills
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Lanes Mills is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lanes Mills
  • Oklahoma
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Oklahoma is located in Clearfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oklahoma
  • Red Mill
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Red Mill is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Mill
  • Rockdale
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Rockdale is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockdale
  • Sandy
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Sandy is located in Clearfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy
  • Sandy Valley
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Sandy Valley is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Valley
  • Soldier
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Soldier is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soldier
  • Stanley
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Stanley is located in Clearfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley
  • Sugar Hill
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Sugar Hill is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Hill

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

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

  • Brookville, which is the Seat of Jefferson County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the west. If you could walk a straight line from Smithtown to Brookville, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
  • Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 119 miles [191.5 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 182 miles [292.9 km] to the south southeast (SSE). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 11 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,876 miles [9,456.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,595 miles [10,613.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,470 miles [7,193.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Smithtown) 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 Smithtown 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 Smithtown 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 Smithtown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.1445, Longitude: -78.8528       In this case, the coordinates for Smithtown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.84 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.864 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.641 degrees.