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 Sugartown:
39.999831, -75.507982
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 Sugartown
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 Chester County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found six communities that are also named Sugartown.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Sugartown is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Catoosa County
This Sugartown is located in Catoosa County and lies 631 miles [1,015.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Sugartown that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Catoosa County community of Sugartown.
Louisiana
Beauregard Parish
This Sugartown is located in Beauregard Parish and lies 1,167 miles [1,878.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Sugartown that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Beauregard Parish community of Sugartown.
Calcasieu Parish
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 Louisiana community of Sugartown [Calcasieu Parish].
Missouri
Montgomery County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Montgomery County, we don't know where within the county.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Sugartown.
New York
Cattaraugus County
This Sugartown is located in Cattaraugus County and lies 222 miles [357.3 km]<1> to the northwest of the Sugartown that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cattaraugus County community of Sugartown.
North Carolina
Yadkin County
This Sugartown is located in Yadkin County and lies 384 miles [618 km]<1> to the southwest of the Sugartown that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yadkin County community of Sugartown.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Sugartown ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Sugartown to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Sugartown and extending to:
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 75 miles [120.7 km]<1> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Sugartown 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 6,493 miles [10,449.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
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).<9>'
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sugartown) 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Sugartown 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>
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 Sugartown, 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 Sugartown 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 Sugartown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9998, Longitude: -75.5080 In this case, the coordinates for Sugartown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.903 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.491 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.622 degrees.