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37.126515, -80.560335
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We found 34 communities that share the name Hickory Hills.
Within Virginia, the name Hickory Hills is unique.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another 34 communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Lauderdale County
This Hickory Hills is located in Lauderdale County and lies 426 miles [685.6 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lauderdale County community of Hickory Hills.
Limestone County
This Hickory Hills is located in Limestone County and lies 397 miles [638.9 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Limestone County community of Hickory Hills.
Morgan County
This Hickory Hills is located in Morgan County and lies 398 miles [640.5 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Morgan County community of Hickory Hills.
Arkansas
Pulaski County
This Hickory Hills is located in Pulaski County and lies 682 miles [1,097.6 km]<1> to the west.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pulaski County community of Hickory Hills.
Georgia
Clayton County
This Hickory Hills is located in Clayton County and lies 325 miles [523 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clayton County community of Hickory Hills.
Gwinnett County
This Hickory Hills is located in Gwinnett County and lies 285 miles [458.7 km] to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gwinnett County community of Hickory Hills.
Illinois
Cook County
This Hickory Hills is located in Cook County and lies 500 miles [804.7 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cook County community of Hickory Hills.
Henry County
This Hickory Hills is located in Henry County and lies 598 miles [962.4 km] to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henry County community of Hickory Hills.
Lake County
This Hickory Hills is located in Lake County and lies 528 miles [849.7 km] to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lake County community of Hickory Hills.
Indiana
Grant 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 Indiana community of Hickory Hills [Grant County].
Louisiana
Saint Tammany Parish
This Hickory Hills is located in Saint Tammany Parish and lies 704 miles [1,133 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Tammany Parish community of Hickory Hills.
Maryland
Anne Arundel County
This Hickory Hills is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 256 miles [412 km]<1> to the east northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Hickory Hills.
Calvert County
This Hickory Hills is located in Calvert County and lies 241 miles [387.9 km] to the east northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calvert County community of Hickory Hills.
Harford County
This Hickory Hills is located in Harford County and lies 282 miles [453.8 km] to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harford County community of Hickory Hills.
Mississippi
Jackson County
This Hickory Hills is located in Jackson County and lies 652 miles [1,049.3 km]<1> to the southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jackson County community of Hickory Hills.
New York
Dutchess County
This Hickory Hills is located in Dutchess County and lies 479 miles [770.9 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dutchess County community of Hickory Hills.
North Carolina
Iredell County
This Hickory Hills is located in Iredell County and lies 96 miles [154.5 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Iredell County community of Hickory Hills.
Lenoir County
This Hickory Hills is located in Lenoir County and lies 205 miles [329.9 km] to the southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lenoir County community of Hickory Hills.
Wake County
This Hickory Hills is located in Wake County and lies 139 miles [223.7 km] to the southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wake County community of Hickory Hills.
Ohio
Athens County
This Hickory Hills is located in Athens County and lies 170 miles [273.6 km]<1> to the north northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Athens County community of Hickory Hills.
Williams County
This Hickory Hills is located in Williams County and lies 362 miles [582.6 km] to the north northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Williams County community of Hickory Hills.
Pennsylvania
Bucks 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 Pennsylvania community of Hickory Hills [Bucks County].
Luzerne County
This Hickory Hills is located in Luzerne County and lies 370 miles [595.5 km]<1> to the northeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Luzerne County community of Hickory Hills.
South Carolina
Spartanburg County
This Hickory Hills is located in Spartanburg County and lies 166 miles [267.2 km]<1> to the south southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Spartanburg County community of Hickory Hills.
Tennessee
Bradley County
This Hickory Hills is located in Bradley County and lies 269 miles [432.9 km]<1> to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bradley County community of Hickory Hills.
Cumberland County
This Hickory Hills is located in Cumberland County and lies 269 miles [432.9 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Hickory Hills.
Greene County
This Hickory Hills is located in Greene County and lies 140 miles [225.3 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greene County community of Hickory Hills.
Hamilton County
This Hickory Hills is located in Hamilton County and lies 294 miles [473.1 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hamilton County community of Hickory Hills.
Knox County
This Hickory Hills is located in Knox County and lies 209 miles [336.4 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Knox County community of Hickory Hills.
Rutherford County
This Hickory Hills is located in Rutherford County and lies 341 miles [548.8 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Hickory Hills.
White County
This Hickory Hills is located in White County and lies 284 miles [457.1 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the White County community of Hickory Hills.
Williamson County
This Hickory Hills is located in Williamson County and lies 353 miles [568.1 km] to the west southwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Williamson County community of Hickory Hills.
West Virginia
Lewis County
This Hickory Hills is located in Lewis County and lies 133 miles [214 km]<1> to the north.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lewis County community of Hickory Hills.
Wisconsin
Dane County
This Hickory Hills is located in Dane County and lies 597 miles [960.8 km]<1> to the northwest.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dane County community of Hickory Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Hickory 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 Valley (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cedar Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 Hickory Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Hickory Hills and extending to:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 173 miles [278.4 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Hickory Hills to Richmond, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 10 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 7 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 227 miles [365.3 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 13 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,123 miles [9,854 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,830 miles [10,991.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,706 miles [7,573.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
Footnotes ...
<1>
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- Hickory Hills) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hickory Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.1265, Longitude: -80.5603 In this case, the coordinates for Hickory Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Hickory 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 . 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>
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.
<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 Hickory Hills to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.041 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.624 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.804 degrees.