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 Capitol Hill:
47.623432, -122.319571
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 Capitol Hill
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 King County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found seven communities that are also named Capitol Hill.
Within Washington, the name Capitol Hill is unique.
Beyond Washington, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these seven communities, six are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
British Columbia
This Capitol Hill lies 118 miles [189.9 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Capitol Hill that is located in King County.
Georgia
Fulton 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 Georgia community of Capitol Hill [Fulton County].
New Jersey
Burlington County
This Capitol Hill is located in Burlington County and lies 2,379 miles [3,828.6 km]<1> to the east of the Capitol Hill that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Burlington County community of Capitol Hill.
Oklahoma
Oklahoma County
This Capitol Hill is located in Oklahoma County and lies 1,522 miles [2,449.4 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Capitol Hill that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma County community of Capitol Hill.
Oregon
Multnomah County
This Capitol Hill is located in Multnomah County and lies 150 miles [241.4 km]<1> to the south of the Capitol Hill that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Multnomah County community of Capitol Hill.
Tennessee
Franklin County
This Capitol Hill is located in Franklin County and lies 2,036 miles [3,276.6 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Capitol Hill that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Capitol Hill.
Utah
Salt Lake County
This Capitol Hill is located in Salt Lake County and lies 699 miles [1,124.9 km]<1> to the southeast of the Capitol Hill that is located in King County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Salt Lake County community of Capitol Hill.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Capitol Hill ...
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 that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Capitol Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Capitol Hill and extending to:
Seattle, which is the Seat of King County, lies just to the South Southwest.
Olympia, which is the State Capital of Washington, lies 48 miles [77.2 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could walk a straight line from Capitol Hill to Olympia, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take about three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of two days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,319 miles [3,732.1 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take 5 days, a buggy would take 91 days and walking would take 132 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,772 miles [10,898.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,534 miles [12,124.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,658 miles [9,105.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>'
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Capitol Hill) 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 Capitol Hill 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 Capitol Hill 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 Capitol Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.6234, Longitude: -122.3196 In this case, the coordinates for Capitol Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 340.864 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 342.418 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.749 degrees.