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Morgantown Municipal Airport Walter L. (Bill) Hart Field Coordinates

WV, US · Elevation 380m

Quick answer: Morgantown Municipal Airport Walter L. (Bill) Hart Field is located at 39.643305, -79.917598 (N, W).

Different tools require different formats — Garmin devices default to DDM, military maps use MGRS, topo maps use UTM, and web apps expect Decimal Degrees. Copy whichever format your device or application needs. Click any format abbreviation to learn how it works.

All Coordinate Formats

DD

Decimal Degrees

39.643305, -79.917598
DMS

Degrees Minutes Seconds

39°38'35.90"N 79°55'3.35"W
DDM

Degrees Decimal Minutes

39°38.5983'N 79°55.0559'W
UTM

Universal Transverse Mercator

17S 592873 4388729
MGRS

Military Grid Reference

17SND9287388729
Geohash

Geohash Encoding

dpp1t2vfb
Plus Code

Open Location Code

87F2J3VJ+9Q

Map Location

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

Antipodal Point

The point on the exact opposite side of Earth from Morgantown Municipal Airport Walter L. (Bill) Hart Field. If you drilled straight through the planet's center, you would emerge here.

Antipodal coordinates

-39.643305, -79.917598

Hemisphere: S, W

DD

Decimal Degrees

-39.643305, -79.917598
DMS

Degrees Minutes Seconds

39°38'35.90"S 79°55'3.35"W
DDM

Degrees Decimal Minutes

39°38.5983'S 79°55.0559'W
UTM

Universal Transverse Mercator

17H 592873 5611271
MGRS

Military Grid Reference

17HNS9287311271
Geohash

Geohash Encoding

60znmrjv0
Plus Code

Open Location Code

47G2934J+Q9

MGRS Decoded

MGRS encodes location as a nested hierarchy — zone, band, grid square, and offsets. Here is what each component of 17SND9287388729 means.

Component Value Meaning
UTM Zone 17 One of 60 vertical slices of Earth (6° wide each). Zone 17 runs -84° to -78° longitude.
Latitude Band S One of 20 horizontal bands (8° tall each), lettered C–X (skipping I and O). Indicates the general latitude region.
100 km Square ND A 100 × 100 km grid square within the zone/band. Column letter N (west–east) and row letter D (south–north).
Easting 92873 Distance east within the 100 km square. 5-digit value = 10 m resolution. Multiply by 1 to get meters.
Northing 88729 Distance north within the 100 km square. Same resolution as easting (10 m).

Geohash Precision

A geohash encodes coordinates by subdividing the Earth into progressively smaller cells. Each extra character roughly halves the cell area. The table below shows Morgantown Municipal Airport Walter L. (Bill) Hart Field's geohash at every precision level alongside the bounding box each level represents.

Length Geohash Cell Size
1
d
≈ 5,000 × 5,000 km
2
dp
≈ 1,250 × 625 km
3
dpp
≈ 156 × 156 km
4
dpp1
≈ 39 × 20 km
5
dpp1t
≈ 4.9 × 4.9 km
6
dpp1t2
≈ 1.2 km × 610 m
7
dpp1t2v
≈ 153 × 153 m
8
dpp1t2vf
≈ 38 × 19 m
9
dpp1t2vfb
≈ 4.8 × 4.8 m

Precision 9 (highlighted) is the default and provides sub-5-metre accuracy for most applications.

About Morgantown Municipal Airport Walter L. (Bill) Hart Field

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantown_Municipal_Airport

Live Converter

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DD

39.643305, -79.917598

DMS

39°38'35.90"N 79°55'3.35"W

DDM

39°38.5983'N 79°55.0559'W

UTM

17S 592873 4388729

MGRS

17SND9287388729

GH

dpp1t2vfb

OLC

87F2J3VJ+9Q