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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 Huntington Heights, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Huntington Heights and the surrounding area.
- 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 Huntington Heights:
- 37.690422, -77.491651
- 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 Huntington Heights
- 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 Henrico County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Henrico County
- Since Huntington Heights is near Hanover County and also Richmond City, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Hanover 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 Huntington Heights
Communities Also Named Huntington Heights ...
We found three communities that are also named Huntington Heights.
There is one other community in Virginia that is also named Huntington Heights.
Beyond Virginia, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
- Communities Located In Virginia ...
- Newport News City
- 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 Virginia community of Huntington Heights [Newport News City].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Colorado
- Jefferson County
- This Huntington Heights is located in Jefferson County and lies 1,487 miles [2,393.1 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Huntington Heights that is located in Henrico County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Huntington Heights.
- South Carolina
- Anderson County
- This Huntington Heights is located in Anderson County and lies 367 miles [590.6 km]<2> to the southwest of the Huntington Heights that is located in Henrico County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Huntington Heights.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Huntington Heights ...
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.
- French Hay
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- French Hay is located in Hanover County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for French Hay
- Glen Allen
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Greenwood
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Greenwood is located in Henrico County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
- Heaths Store
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Heaths Store is located in Hanover County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heaths Store
- Kings Charter
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Kings Charter is located in Hanover County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Charter
- Kingswood Court
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Kingswood Court is located in Hanover County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingswood Court
- Laurel Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Laurel Park is located in Henrico County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurel Park
- Lewistown
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Lewistown is located in Hanover County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewistown
- Longdale
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Longdale is located in Henrico County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longdale
- Poindexters
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Poindexters is located in Hanover County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poindexters
- Quail Walk
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Quail Walk is located in Henrico County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Walk
- Randolph Ridge
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Randolph Ridge is located in Henrico County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph Ridge
How Far From Huntington Heights 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 Huntington Heights to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Huntington Heights and extending to:
- Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could walk a straight line from Huntington Heights to Richmond, with an average speed<4> 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.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 86 miles [138.4 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 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 5,968 miles [9,604.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,669 miles [10,732.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,547 miles [7,317.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 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 Huntington Heights 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 from Point A (ie- Huntington Heights) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Huntington Heights 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 Huntington Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.6904, Longitude: -77.4917 In this case, the coordinates for Huntington Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.223 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.634 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.355 degrees. |
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