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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 College Hills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to College Hills 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 College Hills:
    • 43.078329, -89.438731
    • 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 College Hills
  • 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 Dane County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Dane County
    • Since College Hills is near Columbia County and also Green County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Columbia County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Green 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 College Hills

Communities Also Named College Hills ...

We found seven communities that are also named College Hills.

Within Wisconsin, the name College Hills is unique.

Beyond Wisconsin, we know of seven communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Tuscaloosa County
      • This College Hills is located in Tuscaloosa County and lies 689 miles [1,108.8 km]<1> to the south of the College Hills that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tuscaloosa County community of College Hills.
    • Colorado
      • Adams County
      • This College Hills is located in Adams County and lies 834 miles [1,342.2 km]<1> to the west of the College Hills that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Adams County community of College Hills.
    • Louisiana
      • East Baton Rouge Parish
      • This College Hills is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 881 miles [1,417.8 km]<1> to the south of the College Hills that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of College Hills.
    • Maryland
      • Anne Arundel County
      • This College Hills is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 727 miles [1,170 km]<1> to the east southeast of the College Hills that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of College Hills.
      • Baltimore County
      • This College Hills is located in Baltimore County and lies 710 miles [1,142.6 km] to the east southeast of the College Hills that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of College Hills.
    • Ohio
      • Greene 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 Ohio community of College Hills [Greene County].
    • Tennessee
      • Greene County
      • This College Hills is located in Greene County and lies 593 miles [954.3 km]<1> to the southeast of the College Hills that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greene County community of College Hills.

Curious and Interesting Names Near College 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.

  • Catfish ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Catfish is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catfish
  • Darwin ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Darwin is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darwin
  • Elmside
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Elmside is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmside
  • Five Points
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Five Points is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
  • Lakeview
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Lakeview is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
  • Maple Bluff
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Maple Bluff is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Bluff
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,307 people
  • Oak Hall
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Oak Hall is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Hall
  • Pheasant Branch
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Pheasant Branch is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pheasant Branch
  • Pilgrim Village
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Pilgrim Village is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilgrim Village

How Far From College Hills 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 College Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Madison, which is the Seat of Dane County, lies just to the East.
  • Madison, which is the State Capital of Wisconsin, lies just to the east (E).
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 707 miles [1,137.8 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from College Hills to White House, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 41 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 28 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,189 miles [9,960.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,934 miles [11,159.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,824 miles [7,763.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<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- College Hills) 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 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 College 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 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 College Hills 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 College Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.0783, Longitude: -89.4387       In this case, the coordinates for College Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.642 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.876 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.133 degrees.