Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy).
When in Jack Wade, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Jack Wade and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Jack Wade
- 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 Jack Wade:
- 64.154167, -141.459722
- 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 Jack Wade
- 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
Curious and Interesting Names Near Jack Wade ...
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.
- Boundary
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boundary
- Chicken
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chicken
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Chicken <1>
- Glacier Creek
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Glacier Creek came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<2>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glacier Creek
How Far From Jack Wade 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 community such as Jack Wade to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic<3> community of Jack Wade once stood, the straight-line distance<4> beginning in Jack Wade and extending to:
- Juneau, which is the State Capital of Alaska, lies 466 miles [750 km]<4> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could drive a straight line from Jack Wade to Juneau, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 27 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 19 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 3,082 miles [4,960 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 7 days, a buggy would take 121 days and walking would take 176 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,802 miles [9,337.4 km] and it lies to the north (N).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,519 miles [10,491.3 km] and it lies to the north (N).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,969 miles [7,996.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<9>
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for State of Alaska: alaska.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database. |
| <3> | 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 Jack Wade, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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 from Point A (ie- Jack Wade) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Jack Wade. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 64.1542, Longitude: -141.4597 In this case, the coordinates for Jack Wade have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Jack Wade 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 357.176 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 1.201 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 339.867 degrees. |