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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 Emerald Hills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Emerald Hills 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 Emerald Hills:
    • 41.161611, -111.958830
    • 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 Emerald Hills
  • 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 Weber County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Weber County
    • Since Emerald Hills is near Davis County and also Morgan County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Davis County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Morgan 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 Emerald Hills

Communities Also Named Emerald Hills ...

We found five communities that are also named Emerald Hills.

There is one other community in Utah that is also named Emerald Hills.

Beyond Utah, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Utah ...
    • Davis County
      • This Emerald Hills is located in Davis County and lies 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Emerald Hills that is located in Weber County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davis County community of Emerald Hills.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • San Diego County
      • This Emerald Hills is located in San Diego County and lies 647 miles [1,041.2 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Emerald Hills that is located in Weber County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Diego County community of Emerald Hills.
    • Georgia
      • Clayton County
      • This Emerald Hills is located in Clayton County and lies 1,597 miles [2,570.1 km]<1> to the east of the Emerald Hills that is located in Weber County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clayton County community of Emerald Hills.
    • Virginia
      • Augusta County
      • This Emerald Hills is located in Augusta County and lies 1,756 miles [2,826 km]<1> to the east of the Emerald Hills that is located in Weber County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Augusta County community of Emerald Hills.
    • Washington
      • King 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 Washington community of Emerald Hills [King County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Emerald Hills ...

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.

  • Apple Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Apple Park is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apple Park
  • Bonnie Lane
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Bonnie Lane is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonnie Lane
  • Call
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Call is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Call
  • Diamond Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Diamond Hills is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond Hills
  • England Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • England Hills is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for England Hills
  • Golden View
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Golden View is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden View
  • Greenwood Village
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Greenwood Village is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood Village
  • Harris
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Harris is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris
  • Hartman
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Hartman is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartman
  • Hidden Village
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Hidden Village is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidden Village
  • High View
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • High View is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High View
  • Highland View
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Highland View is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland View
  • Continue List   (12 more) ...
    • Ironwood
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Ironwood is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ironwood
    • Lark Circle
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Lark Circle is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lark Circle
    • Lester
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Lester is located in Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lester
    • Mitchell
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Mitchell is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchell
    • Raintree
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Raintree is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raintree
    • Ridgeline
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Ridgeline is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgeline
    • Ridgepoint
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Ridgepoint is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgepoint
    • River Valley
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
      • River Valley is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Valley
    • Shadow Oaks
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Shadow Oaks is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shadow Oaks
    • Valley Side
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Valley Side is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Side
    • Whispering Oaks
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Whispering Oaks is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whispering Oaks
    • Yorkshire Meadow
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Yorkshire Meadow is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yorkshire Meadow

How Far From Emerald Hills 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 Emerald Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Ogden, which is the Seat of Weber County, lies just to the North.
  • Salt Lake City, which is the State Capital of Utah, lies 27 miles [43.5 km]<1> to the south (S). If you could walk a straight line from Emerald Hills to Salt Lake City, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,840 miles [2,961.2 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of three days, a buggy would take 72 days and walking would take 105 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,976 miles [11,226.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,744 miles [12,462.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,727 miles [9,216.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 from Point A (ie- Emerald Hills) 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 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 Emerald Hills 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>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 Emerald Hills 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 Emerald Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.1616, Longitude: -111.9588       In this case, the coordinates for Emerald Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 332.015 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 331.627 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 321.777 degrees.