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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 Mayne, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Mayne 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 Mayne:
    • 37.551680, -104.719152
    • 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 Mayne
  • 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 Huerfano County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Huerfano County
    • Since Mayne is near Las Animas County and also Costilla County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Las Animas County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Costilla 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 Mayne

Communities Also Named Mayne ...

We found three communities that are also named Mayne.

Within Colorado, the name Mayne is unique.

Beyond Colorado, we know of three communities that are located in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • British Columbia
      • This Mayne lies 1,212 miles [1,950.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Mayne that is located in Huerfano County.
    • Manitoba
      • This community is historichttp://www.waymarking.com/wm/search.aspx?f=1&lat=37.551680&lon=-104.719152&t=6 and we have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for Mayne.
    • Ontario
      • 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 Ontario community of Mayne.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Mayne ...

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.

  • Fir
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Fir is located in Costilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fir
  • Gordon
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Gordon is located in Huerfano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gordon
  • Greenhorn
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Greenhorn is located in Pueblo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenhorn
  • Lester
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Lester is located in Huerfano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lester
  • Lynn
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Lynn is located in Las Animas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynn
  • Morning Glory
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Morning Glory is located in Huerfano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morning Glory
  • Muleshoe
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Muleshoe is located in Huerfano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muleshoe
  • Pryor
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Pryor is located in Huerfano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pryor
  • Rugby
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Rugby is located in Las Animas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rugby
  • Strong
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Strong is located in Huerfano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strong
  • Uptop ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Uptop is located in Huerfano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uptop

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Mayne and extending to:

  • Walsenburg, which is the Seat of Huerfano County, lies just to the North Northwest.
  • Denver, which is the State Capital of Colorado, lies 152 miles [244.6 km]<1> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Mayne to Denver, with an average speed<3>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 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,498 miles [2,410.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 59 days and walking would take 86 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,990 miles [11,249.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,750 miles [12,472.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,668 miles [9,121.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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- Mayne) 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Mayne 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 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.
<4>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 Mayne 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 Mayne. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.5517, Longitude: -104.7192       In this case, the coordinates for Mayne have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 326.107 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 324.31 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 318.049 degrees.