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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 Woodbourne, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Woodbourne 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 Woodbourne:
    • 40.192331, -74.888777
    • 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 Woodbourne
  • 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 Bucks County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Bucks County
    • Since Woodbourne is near Mercer County and also Burlington County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Mercer County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Burlington 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 Woodbourne

Communities Also Named Woodbourne ...

We found five communities that are also named Woodbourne.

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

Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of four communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
    • Susquehanna County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Woodbourne [Susquehanna County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • New Jersey
      • Sussex County
      • This Woodbourne is located in Sussex County and lies 71 miles [114.3 km]<2> to the north of the Woodbourne that is located in Bucks County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sussex County community of Woodbourne.
    • New York
      • Sullivan County
      • This Woodbourne is located in Sullivan County and lies 109 miles [175.4 km]<2> to the north of the Woodbourne that is located in Bucks County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sullivan County community of Woodbourne.
    • Ohio
      • Montgomery County
      • This Woodbourne is located in Montgomery County and lies 491 miles [790.2 km]<2> to the west of the Woodbourne that is located in Bucks County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Woodbourne.
    • Ontario
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Woodbourne.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Woodbourne ...

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.

  • Birch Valley
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Birch Valley is located in Bucks County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birch Valley
  • Bridgetown
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Bridgetown is located in Bucks County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgetown
  • Bucktoe
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Bucktoe is located in Bucks County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucktoe
  • Cobalt Ridge
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Cobalt Ridge is located in Bucks County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cobalt Ridge
  • Crabtree Hollow
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Crabtree Hollow is located in Bucks County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crabtree Hollow
  • Dogwood Hollow
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Dogwood Hollow is located in Bucks County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dogwood Hollow
  • Elderberry Pond
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Elderberry Pond is located in Bucks County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elderberry Pond
  • Fairless Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Fairless Junction
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Fairless Junction is located in Bucks County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairless Junction
  • Glenlake
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Glenlake is located in Bucks County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenlake
  • Goldenridge
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Goldenridge is located in Bucks County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldenridge
  • Holly Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Holly Hill is located in Bucks County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly Hill
  • Continue List   (9 more) ...
    • Indian Creek
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Indian Creek is located in Bucks County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Creek
    • Maple Point
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Maple Point is located in Bucks County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Point
    • Oaktree Hollow
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Oaktree Hollow is located in Bucks County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oaktree Hollow
    • Red Cedar Hill
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Red Cedar Hill is located in Bucks County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Cedar Hill
    • Thornridge
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Thornridge is located in Bucks County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thornridge
    • Violet Wood
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Violet Wood is located in Bucks County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Violet Wood
    • Will O Wood
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Will O Wood is located in Bucks County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Will O Wood
    • Woodside
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Woodside is located in Bucks County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodside
    • Yellowood
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Yellowood is located in Bucks County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellowood

How Far From Woodbourne to ...

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 Woodbourne to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Doylestown, which is the Seat of Bucks County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<2> to the west northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Woodbourne to Doylestown, with an average speed<4> 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 105 miles [169 km] to the west (W). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 145 miles [233.4 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,752 miles [9,256.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,458 miles [10,393.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,335 miles [6,976.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Woodbourne 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.
<2>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- Woodbourne) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Woodbourne 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 Woodbourne. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.1923, Longitude: -74.8888       In this case, the coordinates for Woodbourne have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.519 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.086 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.274 degrees.