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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 Needleton, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Needleton 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 Needleton:
- 37.640554, -107.691451
- 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 Needleton
- 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 San Juan County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for San Juan County
- Since Needleton is near La Plata County and also San Miguel County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for La Plata County
- Open the eBird sighting report for San Miguel 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 Needleton
Communities Also Named Needleton ...
We found one communities that are also named Needleton.
There is one other community in Colorado that is also named Needleton.
Beyond Colorado.
- Communities Located In Colorado ...
- La Plata 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 Colorado community of Needleton [La Plata County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Needleton ...
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.
- Beartown ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Beartown is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beartown
- Cascade
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Cascade is located in La Plata County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascade
- Eureka ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Eureka is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eureka
- Howardsville ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Howardsville is located in San Juan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howardsville
- Logtown ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Logtown is located in La Plata County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logtown
- Red Mountain ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Red Mountain is located in Ouray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Mountain
- Rockwood
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Rockwood is located in La Plata County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockwood
- Trimble
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Trimble is located in La Plata County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trimble
- Tuckerville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Tuckerville is located in La Plata County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuckerville
How Far From Needleton 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 Needleton to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Needleton and extending to:
- Silverton, which is the Seat of San Juan County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the north. If you could walk a straight line from Needleton to Silverton, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
- Denver, which is the State Capital of Colorado, lies 205 miles [329.9 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 12 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,656 miles [2,665.1 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 65 days and walking would take 94 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,073 miles [11,382.9 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 7,837 miles [12,612.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,770 miles [9,285.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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 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 Needleton 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> | 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 from Point A (ie- Needleton) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Needleton 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 Needleton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.6406, Longitude: -107.6915 In this case, the coordinates for Needleton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 328.346 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 326.965 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 319.632 degrees. |
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