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 South Hills:
38.341764, -81.643735
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 South 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 Kanawha County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found seven communities that are also named South Hills.
There is one other community in West Virginia that is also named South Hills.
Beyond West Virginia, we know of six communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Located In West Virginia ...
Monongalia County
This South Hills is located in Monongalia County and lies 127 miles [204.4 km]<1> to the northeast of the South Hills that is located in Kanawha County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monongalia County community of South Hills.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Kentucky
Kenton 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 Kentucky community of South Hills [Kenton County].
North Carolina
Cumberland County
This South Hills is located in Cumberland County and lies 272 miles [437.7 km]<1> to the south southeast of the South Hills that is located in Kanawha County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of South Hills.
Pennsylvania
Allegheny County
This South Hills is located in Allegheny County and lies 165 miles [265.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the South Hills that is located in Kanawha County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allegheny County community of South Hills.
South Carolina
Union County
This South Hills is located in Union County and lies 252 miles [405.6 km]<1> to the south of the South Hills that is located in Kanawha County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of South Hills.
Tennessee
Blount County
This South Hills is located in Blount County and lies 225 miles [362.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the South Hills that is located in Kanawha County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blount County community of South Hills.
Cumberland County
This South Hills is located in Cumberland County and lies 248 miles [399.1 km] to the southwest of the South Hills that is located in Kanawha County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of South Hills.
Curious and Interesting Names Near South 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.
Airport Village (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
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 South Hills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in South Hills and extending to:
Charleston, which is the State Capital of West Virginia, lies just to the east northeast (ENE).
The White House (Washington, DC) is 251 miles [403.9 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from South Hills to White House, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 15 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 10 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,114 miles [9,839.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,828 miles [10,988.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,703 miles [7,568.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- South 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 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 South 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 South 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 South Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.3418, Longitude: -81.6437 In this case, the coordinates for South Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.668 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.52 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.871 degrees.