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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 Trigo, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Trigo 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 Trigo:
    • 36.913002, -119.960434
    • 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 Trigo
  • 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 Madera County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Madera County
    • Since Trigo is near Fresno County and also Merced 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 Merced 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 Trigo

Communities Also Named Trigo ...

We found two communities that are also named Trigo.

There is one other community in California that is also named Trigo.

Beyond California, there is another community also named Trigo in the United States.

  • Communities Located In California ...
    • San Joaquin County
      • This community is historic<1> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Trigo [San Joaquin County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Kansas
      • Saline 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 Kansas community of Trigo [Saline County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Trigo ...

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.

  • Bonita
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Bonita is located in Madera County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonita
  • Fig Garden
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Fig Garden is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fig Garden
  • Floyd
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Floyd is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Floyd
  • Gordon
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Gordon is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gordon
  • Gregg
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Gregg is located in Madera County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gregg
  • Highway City
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Highway City is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highway City
  • Italian Swiss Colony
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Italian Swiss Colony is located in Madera County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Italian Swiss Colony
  • Muscatel
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Muscatel is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muscatel
  • Riverview ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Riverview is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
  • Rolling Hills
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Rolling Hills is located in Madera County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Hills

How Far From Trigo 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 Trigo to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Trigo and extending to:

  • Madera, which is the Seat of Madera County, lies just to the West Northwest.
  • Sacramento, which is the State Capital of California, lies 142 miles [228.5 km]<3> to the northwest (NW). If you could drive a straight line from Trigo to Sacramento, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,320 miles [3,733.7 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,422 miles [11,944.6 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 8,191 miles [13,182.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,215 miles [10,002.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>'

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 Trigo, 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 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 Trigo 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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Trigo) 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 Trigo 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 Trigo. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.9130, Longitude: -119.9604       In this case, the coordinates for Trigo have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 338.041 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 338.504 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 326.667 degrees.