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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 Hydeville:
43.605622, -73.228166
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 Hydeville
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 Rutland County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found four communities that are also named Hydeville.
Within Vermont, the name Hydeville is unique.
Beyond Vermont, we know of four communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Connecticut
Tolland County
This Hydeville is located in Tolland County and lies 121 miles [194.7 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Hydeville that is located in Rutland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tolland County community of Hydeville.
Massachusetts
Worcester County
This Hydeville is located in Worcester County and lies 86 miles [138.4 km]<1> to the southeast of the Hydeville that is located in Rutland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Worcester County community of Hydeville.
New York
Broome County
This Hydeville is located in Broome County and lies 165 miles [265.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Hydeville that is located in Rutland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Broome County community of Hydeville.
Chenango County
This Hydeville is located in Chenango County and lies 150 miles [241.4 km] to the west southwest of the Hydeville that is located in Rutland County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Chenango County community of Hydeville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Hydeville ...
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.
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 Hydeville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Hydeville and extending to:
Rutland, which is the Seat of Rutland County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the east. If you could walk a straight line from Hydeville to Rutland, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
Montpelier, which is the State Capital of Vermont, lies 55 miles [88.5 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take over two days and walking would take most of three days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 380 miles [611.6 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 22 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,545 miles [8,923.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,262 miles [10,077.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,137 miles [6,657.9 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Hydeville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Hydeville 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 Hydeville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.6056, Longitude: -73.2282 In this case, the coordinates for Hydeville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.115 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.06 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 300.944 degrees.