Edgewood College researchers have been collecting data for several years from three separate weather stations on campus. Each location lies in a different, individual immediate environment, each of which contains different amounts of paved surfaces, man-made structures, and vegetation levels-all of which have been shown to affect heat islands in major cities. Data collected over the course of several (three) years from weather stations at these three locations was compiled by the Edgewood College Natural Science department, and I used this collected data, along with my own analysis of the immediate environments surrounding each weather station, to draw my conclusions. Each location has produced varying data (temperature) over the time that this information was collected, showing that heat islands are not only present when cities and rural areas are compared, but they are also present when two locations that are mere feet away from each other present different immediate environments. I recommend that specific changes be made in the landscape that will reduce unnaturally high temperatures when the sun shines the brightest.