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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:
37.119570, -80.577559
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.
We found twelve communities that share the name Highland Hills.
There are two communities within Virginia that are also named Highland Hills.
Beyond Virginia, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States.
Communities Located In Virginia ...
Chesterfield County
This Highland Hills is located in Chesterfield County and lies 168 miles [270.4 km]<1> to the east.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chesterfield County community of Highland Hills.
Halifax County
This Highland Hills is located in Halifax County and lies 97 miles [156.1 km]<1> to the east southeast.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Halifax County community of Highland Hills.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Georgia
Bibb County
This Highland Hills is located in Bibb County and lies 340 miles [547.2 km]<1> to the south southwest.
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 329 miles [529.5 km] to the southwest.
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 512 miles [824 km]<1> to the northwest.
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 763 miles [1,227.9 km]<1> to the southwest.
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 550 miles [885.1 km]<1> to the northeast.
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 163 miles [262.3 km]<1> to the southwest.
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 303 miles [487.6 km]<1> to the north.
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 141 miles [226.9 km]<1> to the west southwest.
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 223 miles [358.9 km] to the west southwest.
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.
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, 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 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:
Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 174 miles [280 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Highland 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 228 miles [366.9 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 6,124 miles [9,855.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,831 miles [10,993.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,707 miles [7,575.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 from Point A (ie- Highland Hills) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Highland Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.1196, Longitude: -80.5776 In this case, the coordinates for Highland 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 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 . 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 Highland 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 310.051 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.635 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.813 degrees.