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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 Hideaway Lake, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hideaway Lake 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 Hideaway Lake:
    • 37.508483, -78.044723
    • 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 Hideaway Lake
  • 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 Powhatan County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Powhatan County
    • Since Hideaway Lake is near Amelia County and also Cumberland County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Amelia County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cumberland 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 Hideaway Lake

Communities Also Named Hideaway Lake ...

We found one communities that are also named Hideaway Lake.

Within Virginia, the name Hideaway Lake is unique.

Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named Hideaway Lake in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Indiana
      • Fountain 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 Indiana community of Hideaway Lake [Fountain County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Hideaway Lake ...

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.

  • Ballsville
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Ballsville is located in Powhatan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ballsville
  • Bush Park ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Bush Park is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bush Park
  • Felixville ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Felixville is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Felixville
  • Fieldstown
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Fieldstown is located in Amelia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fieldstown
  • Hatchers
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Hatchers is located in Powhatan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatchers
  • Haw Branch
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Haw Branch is located in Amelia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haw Branch
  • James River Landing
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • James River Landing is located in Goochland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James River Landing
  • Masons Corner
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Masons Corner is located in Amelia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masons Corner
  • Paineville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Paineville is located in Amelia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paineville
  • Plain View
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Plain View is located in Powhatan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plain View
  • Stokes ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Stokes is located in Goochland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stokes
  • Sunny Side
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Sunny Side is located in Cumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunny Side
  • Tobaccoville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Tobaccoville is located in Powhatan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tobaccoville

How Far From Hideaway Lake 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 Hideaway Lake to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Hideaway Lake and extending to:

  • Powhatan, which is the Seat of Powhatan County, lies just to the East Northeast.
  • Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 33 miles [53.1 km]<2> to the east (E). If you could walk a straight line from Hideaway Lake to Richmond, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of two 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 110 miles [177 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,000 miles [9,656.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,701 miles [10,784.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,579 miles [7,369.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 Hideaway Lake 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 '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- Hideaway Lake) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Hideaway Lake 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 Hideaway Lake. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.5085, Longitude: -78.0447       In this case, the coordinates for Hideaway Lake have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.553 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.983 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.645 degrees.