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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 York Furnace, we use the following websites to find information relevant to York Furnace and the surrounding area.
- 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 York Furnace:
- 39.872324, -76.381350
- 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 York Furnace
- 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 York County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for York County
- Since York Furnace is near Lancaster County and also Harford County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lancaster County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Harford 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 York Furnace
Communities Also Named York Furnace ...
We found one communities that are also named York Furnace.
There is one other community in Pennsylvania that is also named York Furnace.
Beyond Pennsylvania.
- Communities Located In Pennsylvania ...
- Lancaster 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 York Furnace [Lancaster County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near York Furnace ...
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.
- Airville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Bruce
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Bruce is located in York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruce
- Burnt Mills
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Burnt Mills is located in Lancaster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnt Mills
- Drytown
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Drytown is located in Lancaster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drytown
- Highrock
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Highrock is located in York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highrock
- Highville
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Highville is located in Lancaster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highville
- Lockport
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Lockport is located in York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lockport
- Lucky
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Lucky is located in York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucky
- Muddy Creek Forks
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Muddy Creek Forks is located in York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muddy Creek Forks
- Pleasant Grove ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Pleasant Grove is located in York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Grove
- Rockhill
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Rockhill is located in Lancaster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockhill
- Safe Harbor
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Safe Harbor is located in Lancaster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Safe Harbor
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- Slab
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Slab is located in York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab
- Star Rock
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Star Rock is located in Lancaster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Star Rock
- Stone Hill
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Stone Hill is located in Lancaster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Hill
- Sunnyburn
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Sunnyburn is located in York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnyburn
- Union
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Union is located in Lancaster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
How Far From York Furnace to ...
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 York Furnace to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in York Furnace and extending to:
- York, which is the Seat of York County, lies 19 miles [30.6 km]<3> to the west northwest. If you could walk a straight line from York Furnace to York, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 hours.
- Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 38 miles [61.2 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take just about two full days and walking would take over two days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 75 miles [120.7 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,829 miles [9,380.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,536 miles [10,518.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,413 miles [7,102 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 York Furnace 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- York Furnace) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 York Furnace 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 York Furnace. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.8723, Longitude: -76.3813 In this case, the coordinates for York Furnace have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.432 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.071 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.05 degrees. |
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