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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 Coral Ridge, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Coral Ridge 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 Coral Ridge:
    • 26.160363, -80.109766
    • 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 Coral Ridge
  • 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 Broward County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Broward County
    • Since Coral Ridge is near Palm Beach County and also Miami-Dade County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Palm Beach County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Miami-Dade 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 Coral Ridge

Communities Also Named Coral Ridge ...

We found one communities that are also named Coral Ridge.

Within Florida, the name Coral Ridge is unique.

Beyond Florida, there is another community also named Coral Ridge in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Kentucky
      • Jefferson 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 Kentucky community of Coral Ridge [Jefferson County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Coral Ridge ...

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.

  • Coral Heights
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Coral Heights is located in Broward County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coral Heights
  • Coral Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Coral Hills is located in Broward County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coral Hills
  • Coral Woods
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Coral Woods is located in Broward County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coral Woods
  • Cypress Harbor
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Cypress Harbor is located in Broward County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Harbor
  • Harbor Beach
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Harbor Beach is located in Broward County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor Beach
  • Imperial Point
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Imperial Point is located in Broward County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Imperial Point
  • Lazy Lake
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Lazy Lake is located in Broward County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lazy Lake
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 26 people
  • Lyons Park
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Lyons Park is located in Broward County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyons Park
  • Rock Island Village
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Rock Island Village is located in Broward County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Island Village
  • Royal Palm Isles
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Royal Palm Isles is located in Broward County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal Palm Isles
  • Sea Ranch Lakes
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Sea Ranch Lakes is located in Broward County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sea Ranch Lakes
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 562 people
  • Silver Shores
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Silver Shores is located in Broward County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Shores
  • Sunrise Key
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Sunrise Key is located in Broward County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise Key
  • Twin Lakes
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Twin Lakes is located in Broward County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Lakes

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

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

  • Fort Lauderdale, which is the Seat of Broward County, lies just to the Southwest.
  • Tallahassee, which is the State Capital of Florida, lies 389 miles [626 km]<2> to the northwest (NW). If you could drive a straight line from Coral Ridge to Tallahassee, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 23 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 16 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 897 miles [1,443.6 km] to the north (N). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 35 days and walking would take 51 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,588 miles [10,602.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,238 miles [11,648.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,155 miles [8,296.2 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 Coral Ridge 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- Coral Ridge) 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 Coral Ridge 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 Coral Ridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 26.1604, Longitude: -80.1098       In this case, the coordinates for Coral Ridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.492 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.435 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.555 degrees.