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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 Whitehorse:
39.989988, -75.468716
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.
We found three communities that share the name Whitehorse.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Whitehorse is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, .
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
New Mexico
McKinley County
This Whitehorse is located in McKinley County and lies 1,772 miles [2,851.8 km]<1> to the west of the Whitehorse that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the McKinley County community of Whitehorse.
South Dakota
Dewey County
This Whitehorse is located in Dewey County and lies 1,335 miles [2,148.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Whitehorse that is located in Chester County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dewey County community of Whitehorse.
Yukon
This Whitehorse lies 2,857 miles [4,597.9 km]<1> to the northwest of the Whitehorse that is located in Chester County.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Whitehorse ...
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.
Bow Tree (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bow Tree have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Whitehorse to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Whitehorse and extending to:
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 77 miles [123.9 km]<1> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Whitehorse 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 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<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,785 miles [9,310.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,491 miles [10,446.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,368 miles [7,029.6 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- Whitehorse) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Whitehorse. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9900, Longitude: -75.4687 In this case, the coordinates for Whitehorse have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>
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<4>
An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<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 Whitehorse to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.881 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.464 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.609 degrees.