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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 Thomas Mill:
40.226261, -78.986229
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.
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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 Somerset County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found two communities that are also named Thomas Mill.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Thomas Mill is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Bibb County
This Thomas Mill is located in Bibb County and lies 667 miles [1,073.4 km]<1> to the southwest of the Thomas Mill that is located in Somerset County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bibb County community of Thomas Mill.
Georgia
Union County
This Thomas Mill is located in Union County and lies 461 miles [741.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Thomas Mill that is located in Somerset County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Thomas Mill.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Thomas Mill ...
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 Thomas Mill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Thomas Mill and extending to:
Somerset, which is the Seat of Somerset County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> to the south southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Thomas Mill to Somerset, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 111 miles [178.6 km] to the east (E). 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 138 miles [222.1 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 8 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,922 miles [9,530.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,637 miles [10,681.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,512 miles [7,261.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Thomas Mill) 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.
<3>
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.
<4>
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 Thomas Mill 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 Thomas Mill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.2263, Longitude: -78.9862
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.979 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.88 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.052 degrees.