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Outdoor Activities ...

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

When in Casa Blanca, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Casa Blanca 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 Casa Blanca:
    • 31.597216, -110.719101
    • 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 Casa Blanca
  • 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 Santa Cruz County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Santa Cruz County
    • Since Casa Blanca is near Pima County and also Cochise County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Pima County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cochise County
  • 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:
    • Open the Waymark.com report for Casa Blanca

Communities Also Named Casa Blanca ...

We found six communities that are also named Casa Blanca.

There is one other community in Arizona that is also named Casa Blanca.

Beyond Arizona, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Arizona ...
    • Pinal County
      • This Casa Blanca is located in Pinal County and lies 125 miles [201.2 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Casa Blanca that is located in Santa Cruz County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pinal County community of Casa Blanca.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Riverside County
      • This Casa Blanca is located in Riverside County and lies 420 miles [675.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Casa Blanca that is located in Santa Cruz County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Riverside County community of Casa Blanca.
      • San Bernardino 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 California community of Casa Blanca [San Bernardino County].
    • Florida
      • Hillsborough County
      • This Casa Blanca is located in Hillsborough County and lies 1,698 miles [2,732.7 km]<1> to the east of the Casa Blanca that is located in Santa Cruz County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Casa Blanca.
    • New Mexico
      • Cibola County
      • This Casa Blanca is located in Cibola County and lies 302 miles [486 km]<1> to the northeast of the Casa Blanca that is located in Santa Cruz County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cibola County community of Casa Blanca.
    • Texas
      • Jim Wells County
      • This Casa Blanca is located in Jim Wells County and lies 806 miles [1,297.1 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Casa Blanca that is located in Santa Cruz County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jim Wells County community of Casa Blanca.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Casa Blanca ...

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.

How Far From Casa Blanca to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Casa Blanca 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<4> community of Casa Blanca once stood, the straight-line distance beginning in Casa Blanca and extending to:

  • Nogales, which is the Seat of Santa Cruz County, lies 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Casa Blanca to Nogales, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
  • Phoenix, which is the State Capital of Arizona, lies 150 miles [241.4 km] to the north northwest (NNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,953 miles [3,143 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take three full days, a buggy would take 77 days and walking would take 111 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,520 miles [12,102.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,281 miles [13,327 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,202 miles [9,981.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Casa Blanca) 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 Casa Blanca 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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 Casa Blanca, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Casa Blanca 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 Casa Blanca. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.5972, Longitude: -110.7191    
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 329.797 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 328.113 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 321.465 degrees.