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We found 45 communities that share the name Forest Hill.
There are three communities within Virginia that are also named Forest Hill.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 42 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 42 communities, 41 are located in the United States and six are in Canada.
Communities Located In Virginia ...
Brunswick 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 Virginia community of Forest Hill [Brunswick County].
Campbell County
This Forest Hill is located in Campbell County and lies 20 miles [32.2 km]<2> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Campbell County community of Forest Hill.
Richmond City
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 Virginia community of Forest Hill [Richmond City].
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Mobile County
This Forest Hill is located in Mobile County and lies 689 miles [1,108.8 km]<2> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mobile County community of Forest Hill.
California
San Francisco County
This Forest Hill is located in San Francisco County and lies 2,345 miles [3,773.9 km]<2> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Francisco County community of Forest Hill.
Colorado
Gunnison County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Gunnison County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gunnison County community of Forest Hill.
Illinois
Cook County
This Forest Hill is located in Cook County and lies 541 miles [870.7 km]<2> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Forest Hill.
Indiana
Decatur County
This Forest Hill is located in Decatur County and lies 369 miles [593.8 km]<2> to the west northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Decatur County community of Forest Hill.
Posey County
This Forest Hill is located in Posey County and lies 460 miles [740.3 km] to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Posey County community of Forest Hill.
Kansas
Lyon County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Lyon County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lyon County community of Forest Hill.
Morris 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 Kansas community of Forest Hill [Morris County].
Russell 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 Forest Hill [Russell County].
Wallace 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 Forest Hill [Wallace County].
Kentucky
McCracken County
This Forest Hill is located in McCracken County and lies 519 miles [835.2 km]<2> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the McCracken County community of Forest Hill.
Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish
This Forest Hill is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 834 miles [1,342.2 km]<2> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of Forest Hill.
Rapides Parish
This Forest Hill is located in Rapides Parish and lies 877 miles [1,411.4 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rapides Parish community of Forest Hill.
Maryland
Harford County
This Forest Hill is located in Harford County and lies 213 miles [342.8 km]<2> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Forest Hill.
Massachusetts
Suffolk 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 Massachusetts community of Forest Hill [Suffolk County].
Michigan
Gratiot County
This Forest Hill is located in Gratiot County and lies 505 miles [812.7 km]<2> to the north northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gratiot County community of Forest Hill.
Mississippi
Hinds County
This Forest Hill is located in Hinds County and lies 720 miles [1,158.7 km]<2> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hinds County community of Forest Hill.
New Brunswick
This Forest Hill lies 933 miles [1,501.5 km]<2> to the northeast.
New Jersey
Camden 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 New Jersey community of Forest Hill [Camden County].
Essex 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 New Jersey community of Forest Hill [Essex County].
Ocean 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 New Jersey community of Forest Hill [Ocean County].
North Carolina
Forsyth County
This community is historic<3> and although located in Forsyth County, we don't know where within the .
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Forsyth County community of Forest Hill.
Wayne County
This Forest Hill is located in Wayne County and lies 156 miles [251.1 km]<2> to the south southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Forest Hill.
Nova Scotia
This Forest Hill lies 1,052 miles [1,693 km]<2> to the northeast.
Ohio
Cuyahoga 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 Ohio community of Forest Hill [Cuyahoga County].
Summit County
This Forest Hill is located in Summit County and lies 282 miles [453.8 km]<2> to the north northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Summit County community of Forest Hill.
Oklahoma
Le Flore County
This Forest Hill is located in Le Flore County and lies 875 miles [1,408.2 km]<2> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Le Flore County community of Forest Hill.
Ontario
This Forest Hill lies 434 miles [698.5 km]<2> to the north.
Pennsylvania
Union County
This Forest Hill is located in Union County and lies 271 miles [436.1 km]<2> to the north northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Forest Hill.
Prince Edward Island
This Forest Hill lies 1,051 miles [1,691.4 km]<2> to the northeast.
Tennessee
Blount County
This Forest Hill is located in Blount County and lies 289 miles [465.1 km]<2> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blount County community of Forest Hill.
Cocke County
This Forest Hill is located in Cocke County and lies 237 miles [381.4 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cocke County community of Forest Hill.
Cumberland 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 Tennessee community of Forest Hill [Cumberland County].
Giles County
This community is historic and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Forest Hill [Giles County].
Humphreys County
This Forest Hill is located in Humphreys County and lies 483 miles [777.3 km] to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Humphreys County community of Forest Hill.
Shelby County
This Forest Hill is located in Shelby County and lies 609 miles [980.1 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shelby County community of Forest Hill.
Texas
Harris County
This Forest Hill is located in Harris County and lies 1,065 miles [1,714 km]<2> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Forest Hill.
Lamar County
This Forest Hill is located in Lamar County and lies 967 miles [1,556.2 km] to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lamar County community of Forest Hill.
Potter 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 Texas community of Forest Hill [Potter County].
Tarrant County
This Forest Hill is located in Tarrant County and lies 1,070 miles [1,722 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tarrant County community of Forest Hill.
Wood County
This Forest Hill is located in Wood County and lies 967 miles [1,556.2 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wood County community of Forest Hill.
West Virginia
Summers County
This Forest Hill is located in Summers County and lies 87 miles [140 km]<2> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Summers County community of Forest Hill.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Forest Hill ...
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.
Clay (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clay have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Forest Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Forest Hill and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 97 miles [156.1 km]<2> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Forest Hill to Richmond, with an average speed<6>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take three full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 155 miles [249.4 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,053 miles [9,741.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,757 miles [10,874.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,635 miles [7,459.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>
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 Forest Hill 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 . 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Forest Hill) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Forest Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.4160, Longitude: -79.2036 In this case, the coordinates for Forest Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Forest Hill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>
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.
<7>
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 Forest Hill to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.234 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.745 degrees.
<10>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.151 degrees.