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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 Cooks Valley, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Cooks Valley and the surrounding area.
- 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 Cooks Valley:
- 40.001258, -123.786136
- 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 Cooks Valley
- 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 Humboldt County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Humboldt County
- Since Cooks Valley is near Mendocino County and also Trinity County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Mendocino County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Trinity 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 Cooks Valley
Communities Also Named Cooks Valley ...
We found one communities that are also named Cooks Valley.
Within California, the name Cooks Valley is unique.
Beyond California, there is another community also named Cooks Valley in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Minnesota
- Wabasha County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Minnesota community of Cooks Valley [Wabasha County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cooks Valley ...
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.
- Empire ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Empire is located in Mendocino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire
- Harris
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Harris is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris
- Island Mountain
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Island Mountain is located in Trinity County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island Mountain
- Kenny
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Kenny is located in Mendocino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenny
- Pratt Place
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Pratt Place is located in Mendocino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pratt Place
- Shelter Cove
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Steelhead
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Steelhead is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steelhead
- Thorn Junction
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Thorn Junction is located in Humboldt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorn Junction
- Twin Rocks
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Twin Rocks is located in Mendocino County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Rocks
How Far From Cooks Valley 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 Cooks Valley to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Cooks Valley and extending to:
- Eureka, which is the Seat of Humboldt County, lies 58 miles [93.3 km]<3> to the north northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Cooks Valley to Eureka, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
- Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 157 miles [252.7 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 7 days and walking would take 9 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,464 miles [3,965.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 97 days and walking would take 140 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,294 miles [11,738.6 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,058 miles [12,968.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,145 miles [9,889.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Cooks Valley 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. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cooks Valley) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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 Cooks Valley 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 Cooks Valley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.0013, Longitude: -123.7861 In this case, the coordinates for Cooks Valley have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 341.576 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 342.903 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 329.012 degrees. |
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