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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 Wild Horse, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Wild Horse 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 Wild Horse:
    • 38.329169, -104.668587
    • 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 Wild Horse
  • 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 Pueblo County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Pueblo County
    • Since Wild Horse is near El Paso County and also Fremont County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for El Paso County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Fremont 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 Wild Horse

Communities Also Named Wild Horse ...

We found five communities that are also named Wild Horse.

There is one other community in Colorado that is also named Wild Horse.

Beyond Colorado, we know of four communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Colorado ...
    • Cheyenne County
      • This Wild Horse is located in Cheyenne County and lies 95 miles [152.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Wild Horse that is located in Pueblo County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cheyenne County community of Wild Horse.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alberta
      • This Wild Horse lies 786 miles [1,264.9 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Wild Horse that is located in Pueblo County.
    • Oklahoma
      • Osage 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 Oklahoma community of Wild Horse [Osage County].
    • Texas
      • Culberson 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 Texas community of Wild Horse [Culberson County].
      • El Paso County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Wild Horse [El Paso County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Wild Horse ...

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.

  • Eden
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Eden is located in Pueblo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden
  • Fearnowville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Fearnowville is located in Pueblo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fearnowville
  • Goodnight
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Goodnight is located in Pueblo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodnight
  • Lime
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Lime is located in Pueblo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lime
  • Salt Creek
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Salt Creek is located in Pueblo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salt Creek
  • Stem Beach
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Stem Beach is located in Pueblo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stem Beach
  • Stone City
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Stone City is located in Pueblo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone City
  • Swallows
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Swallows is located in Pueblo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swallows
  • Vineland
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Vineland is located in Pueblo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vineland

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

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

  • Pueblo, which is the Seat of Pueblo County, lies just to the Southeast.
  • Denver, which is the State Capital of Colorado, lies 99 miles [159.3 km]<1> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Wild Horse to Denver, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take three full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,485 miles [2,389.9 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 58 days and walking would take 85 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,944 miles [11,175.3 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 7,705 miles [12,400 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,626 miles [9,054.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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- Wild Horse) 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 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 Wild Horse 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 Wild Horse 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 Wild Horse. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.3292, Longitude: -104.6686       In this case, the coordinates for Wild Horse have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 326.153 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 324.448 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 317.947 degrees.