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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 Highland Hills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Highland 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 Highland Hills:
    • 37.528481, -77.552487
    • 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 Highland 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 Chesterfield County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Chesterfield County
    • Since Highland Hills is near Richmond County and also Richmond City, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Richmond County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Richmond City
  • 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 Highland Hills

Communities Also Named Highland Hills ...

We found twelve communities that are also named Highland Hills.

There are two communities within Virginia that are also named Highland Hills.

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

  • Communities Located In Virginia ...
    • Halifax County
      • This Highland Hills is located in Halifax County and lies 91 miles [146.5 km]<1> to the southwest of the Highland Hills that is located in Chesterfield County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Halifax County community of Highland Hills.
    • Radford City
      • This Highland Hills is located in Radford City and lies 168 miles [270.4 km]<1> to the west of the Highland Hills that is located in Chesterfield County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Radford City community of Highland Hills.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Bibb County
      • This Highland Hills is located in Bibb County and lies 469 miles [754.8 km]<1> to the southwest of the Highland Hills that is located in Chesterfield County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bibb County community of Highland Hills.
      • Fayette County
      • This Highland Hills is located in Fayette County and lies 474 miles [762.8 km] to the west southwest of the Highland Hills that is located in Chesterfield County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Highland Hills.
    • Illinois
      • DuPage County
      • This Highland Hills is located in DuPage County and lies 629 miles [1,012.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Highland Hills that is located in Chesterfield County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the DuPage County community of Highland Hills.
    • Louisiana
      • East Baton Rouge Parish
      • This Highland Hills is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 919 miles [1,479 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Highland Hills that is located in Chesterfield County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of Highland Hills.
    • New York
      • Saratoga County
      • This Highland Hills is located in Saratoga County and lies 435 miles [700.1 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Highland Hills that is located in Chesterfield County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saratoga County community of Highland Hills.
    • North Carolina
      • Henderson County
      • This Highland Hills is located in Henderson County and lies 311 miles [500.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Highland Hills that is located in Chesterfield County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henderson County community of Highland Hills.
    • Ohio
      • Cuyahoga County
      • This Highland Hills is located in Cuyahoga County and lies 343 miles [552 km]<1> to the northwest of the Highland Hills that is located in Chesterfield County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cuyahoga County community of Highland Hills.
    • Tennessee
      • Greene County
      • This Highland Hills is located in Greene County and lies 306 miles [492.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Highland Hills that is located in Chesterfield County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greene County community of Highland Hills.
      • Loudon County
      • This Highland Hills is located in Loudon County and lies 389 miles [626 km] to the west southwest of the Highland Hills that is located in Chesterfield County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Loudon County community of Highland Hills.
    • Texas
      • Bexar 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 Texas community of Highland Hills [Bexar County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Highland 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.

  • Cherokee Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Cherokee Hills is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee Hills
  • Grand Summit
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Grand Summit is located in Chesterfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Summit
  • Granite
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Granite is located in Richmond City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite
  • Gravel Hill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Gravel Hill is located in Richmond City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravel Hill
  • Hobby Hill Farms
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Hobby Hill Farms is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobby Hill Farms
  • Holiday Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Holiday Hills is located in Chesterfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Hills
  • Mooreland
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Mooreland is located in Henrico County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mooreland
  • Old Gun
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Old Gun is located in Chesterfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Gun
  • Spring Grove
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Spring Grove is located in Chesterfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Grove
  • Willow Oaks
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Willow Oaks is located in Richmond City
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Oaks
  • Wiseville ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Wiseville is located in Chesterfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wiseville

How Far From Highland Hills to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Highland Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Chesterfield, which is the Seat of Chesterfield County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Highland Hills to Chesterfield, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
  • Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies just to the east (E).
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 98 miles [157.7 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,978 miles [9,620.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,678 miles [10,747.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,557 miles [7,333.8 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Highland 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Highland 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 Highland 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 Highland Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.5285, Longitude: -77.5525       In this case, the coordinates for Highland Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.266 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.659 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.439 degrees.