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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 Honeyville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Honeyville 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 Honeyville:
    • 38.578733, -78.562234
    • 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 Honeyville
  • 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 Page County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Page County
    • Since Honeyville is near Shenandoah County and also Rockingham County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Shenandoah County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Rockingham 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 Honeyville

Communities Also Named Honeyville ...

We found seven communities that are also named Honeyville.

There is one other community in Virginia that is also named Honeyville.

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

  • Communities Located In Virginia ...
    • Rockingham County
      • This Honeyville is located in Rockingham County and lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Honeyville that is located in Page County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockingham County community of Honeyville.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Gulf County
      • This Honeyville is located in Gulf County and lies 698 miles [1,123.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Honeyville that is located in Page County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gulf County community of Honeyville.
    • Indiana
      • LaGrange County
      • This Honeyville is located in LaGrange County and lies 425 miles [684 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Honeyville that is located in Page County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the LaGrange County community of Honeyville.
    • New York
      • Jefferson County
      • This Honeyville is located in Jefferson County and lies 388 miles [624.4 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Honeyville that is located in Page County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Honeyville.
    • Oklahoma
      • 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 Oklahoma community of Honeyville [Grant County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Clinton 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 Honeyville [Clinton County].
    • Utah
      • Box Elder County
      • This Honeyville is located in Box Elder County and lies 1,771 miles [2,850.1 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Honeyville that is located in Page County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Box Elder County community of Honeyville.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Honeyville ...

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.

  • Catherine Furnace
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Catherine Furnace is located in Page County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catherine Furnace
  • Cavetown
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Cavetown is located in Page County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cavetown
  • Comertown
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Comertown is located in Page County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comertown
  • Grove Hill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Grove Hill is located in Page County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grove Hill
  • Intersections
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Intersections is located in Page County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Intersections
  • Leaksville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Leaksville is located in Page County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leaksville
  • Marksville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Marksville is located in Page County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marksville
  • Shavertown
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Shavertown is located in Shenandoah County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shavertown
  • Stanley
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Whitehouse Landing
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Whitehouse Landing is located in Page County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitehouse Landing

How Far From Honeyville to ...

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 Honeyville to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Luray, which is the Seat of Page County, lies just to the Northeast.
  • Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 94 miles [151.3 km]<1> to the southeast (SE). If you could drive a straight line from Honeyville to Richmond, with an average speed<4>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 most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 85 miles [136.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,976 miles [9,617.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,683 miles [10,755.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,559 miles [7,337 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Honeyville) 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 Honeyville 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Honeyville 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 Honeyville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.5787, Longitude: -78.5622       In this case, the coordinates for Honeyville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.81 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.437 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.475 degrees.