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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 Home Garden, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Home Garden 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 Home Garden:
- 36.302358, -119.633901
- 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 Home Garden
- 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 Kings County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Kings County
- Since Home Garden is near Fresno County and also Tulare County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Fresno County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Tulare 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 Home Garden
Curious and Interesting Names Near Home Garden ...
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.
- Bean ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Bean is located in Kings County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bean
- Clint
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Clint is located in Fresno County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clint
- Guernsey
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Guernsey is located in Kings County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guernsey
- Halls Corner
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Halls Corner is located in Kings County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halls Corner
- Hub
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Hub is located in Kings County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hub
- Marsala ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Marsala is located in Kings County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marsala
- Orion ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Orion is located in Kings County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orion
- Shell
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Shell is located in Kings County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell
How Far From Home Garden to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Home Garden to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<1> beginning in Home Garden and extending to:
- Hanford, which is the Seat of Kings County, lies just to the North Northwest.
- Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 187 miles [300.9 km]<1> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Home Garden to Sacramento, with an average speed<2>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take a little over three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 11 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 8 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,316 miles [3,727.2 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 91 days and walking would take 132 days.
- The shortest distance<3> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,455 miles [11,997.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<4>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,223 miles [13,233.6 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,240 miles [10,042.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Home Garden) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Home Garden 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 Home Garden. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.3024, Longitude: -119.6339 |
| <4> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 337.696 degrees. |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 338.05 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 326.471 degrees. |
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