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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 Wallace Village, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Wallace Village and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Wallace Village:
    • 39.883319, -105.092762
    • 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 Wallace Village
  • 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 Jefferson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Jefferson County
    • Since Wallace Village is near Adams County and also Broomfield County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Adams County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Broomfield 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 Wallace Village

Communities Also Named Wallace Village ...

We found one communities that are also named Wallace Village.

There is one other community in Colorado that is also named Wallace Village.

Beyond Colorado.

  • Communities Located In Colorado ...
    • Boulder 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 Wallace Village [Boulder County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Wallace Village ...

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.

  • Cotton Creek
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Cotton Creek is located in Adams County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Creek
  • Countryside
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Countryside is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Countryside
  • Far Horizon
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Far Horizon is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Far Horizon
  • Hackberry Hills
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Hackberry Hills is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hackberry Hills
  • Lake Arbor
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Lake Arbor is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Arbor
  • Lakecrest
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Lakecrest is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakecrest
  • Sunset Ridge
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Sunset Ridge is located in Adams County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Ridge
  • Sunstream
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Sunstream is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunstream
  • Walnut Grove
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Walnut Grove is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove
  • Wandering View
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Wandering View is located in Adams County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wandering View
  • Wood Run
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Wood Run is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wood Run

How Far From Wallace Village to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Wallace Village to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Wallace Village and extending to:

  • Golden, which is the Seat of Jefferson County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Wallace Village to Golden, 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 10 miles [16.1 km] to the south southeast (SSE). The buggy would take a little over three hours and walking would take four to five hours.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,492 miles [2,401.1 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of three days, a buggy would take 59 days and walking would take 85 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,867 miles [11,051.4 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 7,630 miles [12,279.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,562 miles [8,951.2 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 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 Wallace Village 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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Wallace Village) 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 Wallace Village 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 Wallace Village. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.8833, Longitude: -105.0928       In this case, the coordinates for Wallace Village have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 326.621 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 325.163 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 318.011 degrees.