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Outdoor Activities ...

As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy).

When in Dillingham, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Dillingham 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 Dillingham:
    • 59.040555, -158.46307
    • 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.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Dillingham
  • 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:
    • Waymark.com

Communities Also Named Dillingham ...

We found four communities that share the name Dillingham.

Within Alaska, the name Dillingham is unique.

Beyond Alaska, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Washington County
      • This community is historic<1> and although located in Washington County, we don't know where within the .
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Dillingham.
    • Kentucky
      • Adair 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 Dillingham [Adair County].
    • North Carolina
      • Buncombe County
      • This Dillingham is located in Buncombe County and lies 3,660 miles [5,890.2 km]<3> to the east.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Buncombe County community of Dillingham.
    • North Dakota
      • Dillingham #
      • 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 North Dakota community of Dillingham.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Dillingham ...

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.

  • Portage Creek
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Portage Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portage Creek
  • Wood River
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wood River have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wood River

How Far From Dillingham to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a city such as Dillingham to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Juneau, which is the State Capital of Alaska, lies 860 miles [1,384 km]<3> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Dillingham to Juneau, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 49 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 34 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 3,677 miles [5,917.6 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take 8 days, a buggy would take 144 days and walking would take 209 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,108 miles [9,829.9 km] and it lies to the north (N).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,776 miles [10,904.9 km] and it lies to the north northwest (NNW).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,439 miles [8,753.2 km] and it lies to the north (N).<9>

The official website for Dillingham: www.ci.dillingham.ak.us/

The official website for State of Alaska: alaska.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Dillingham, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Dillingham 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 . 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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Dillingham) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dillingham. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 59.0406, Longitude: -158.4631    
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>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.
<6>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 Dillingham to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 11.618 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 17.164 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 353.12 degrees.









 

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