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 Wilson Creek:
39.917579, -79.103361
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 Wilson Creek
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 six communities that are also named Wilson Creek.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Wilson Creek is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of six communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, five are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
British Columbia
This Wilson Creek lies 2,250 miles [3,621 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Wilson Creek that is located in Somerset County.
Kansas
Ellsworth 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 Kansas community of Wilson Creek [Ellsworth County].
Wilson County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Wilson Creek [Wilson County].
Nevada
Lincoln County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Wilson Creek [Lincoln County].
New York
Tioga County
This Wilson Creek is located in Tioga County and lies 224 miles [360.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Wilson Creek that is located in Somerset County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tioga County community of Wilson Creek.
Washington
Grant County
This Wilson Creek is located in Grant County and lies 2,040 miles [3,283.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Wilson Creek that is located in Somerset County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grant County community of Wilson Creek.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Wilson Creek ...
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 Wilson Creek to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Wilson Creek and extending to:
Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 120 miles [193.1 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Wilson Creek to Harrisburg, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 130 miles [209.2 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 8 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,940 miles [9,559.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,654 miles [10,708.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,529 miles [7,288.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Wilson Creek) 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 Wilson Creek 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 Wilson Creek, 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 Wilson Creek 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 Wilson Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.9176, Longitude: -79.1034 In this case, the coordinates for Wilson Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.067 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.934 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.219 degrees.