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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 Belmont Hills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Belmont 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 Belmont Hills:
    • 38.326700, -77.478500
    • 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 Belmont 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 Stafford County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Stafford County
    • Since Belmont Hills is near Fredericksburg City and also Spotsylvania County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Fredericksburg City
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Spotsylvania 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 Belmont Hills

Communities Also Named Belmont Hills ...

We found two communities that are also named Belmont Hills.

Within Virginia, the name Belmont Hills is unique.

Beyond Virginia, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Pennsylvania
      • Bucks 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 Belmont Hills [Bucks County].
      • Montgomery County
      • This Belmont Hills is located in Montgomery County and lies 167 miles [268.8 km]<2> to the northeast of the Belmont Hills that is located in Stafford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Belmont Hills.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Belmont 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.

  • Cedar Bluff
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Cedar Bluff is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Bluff
  • Chapel View
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Chapel View is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel View
  • Clearview
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Clearview is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clearview
  • Cranes Corner
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Cranes Corner is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cranes Corner
  • Cranewood
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Cranewood is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cranewood
  • Deacon Woods
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Deacon Woods is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deacon Woods
  • England Run
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • England Run is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for England Run
  • English Hills
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • English Hills is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for English Hills
  • Fall Run Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Fall Run Park is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fall Run Park
  • Ferry Farm
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Ferry Farm is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ferry Farm
  • Ferry Road
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Ferry Road is located in Stafford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ferry Road
  • Fredericksburg
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Hazel Hill
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Hazel Hill is located in Fredericksburg City
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazel Hill
    • Heather Hills
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Heather Hills is located in Stafford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heather Hills
    • Heritage Commons
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Heritage Commons is located in Stafford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heritage Commons
    • Hickory Ridge
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Hickory Ridge is located in Stafford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Ridge
    • High School Heights
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • High School Heights is located in Stafford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High School Heights
    • Hollyridge
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Hollyridge is located in Stafford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollyridge
    • Little Falls Village
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Little Falls Village is located in Stafford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Falls Village
    • Locust Knolls
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Locust Knolls is located in Stafford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Knolls
    • Misty Forest
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Misty Forest is located in Stafford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Misty Forest
    • Peacock Station
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Peacock Station is located in Stafford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peacock Station
    • Ridge Pointe
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Ridge Pointe is located in Stafford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridge Pointe
    • Spring Valley
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Spring Valley is located in Stafford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Valley
    • Walnut Grove
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Walnut Grove is located in Stafford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove
    • Walnut Hill
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Walnut Hill is located in Stafford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Hill
    • Woodlawn
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Woodlawn is located in Stafford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlawn

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

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

  • Stafford, which is the Seat of Stafford County, lies just to the North Northeast.
  • Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 54 miles [86.9 km]<2> to the south (S). If you could walk a straight line from Belmont Hills to Richmond, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 46 miles [74 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take most of two days and walking would take about three full days.
  • The shortest distance<5> 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).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,644 miles [10,692.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,522 miles [7,277.5 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 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 Belmont 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.
<2>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- Belmont Hills) 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 Belmont 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 Belmont Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.3267, Longitude: -77.4785       In this case, the coordinates for Belmont Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.183 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.685 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.115 degrees.