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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 Cross City, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Cross City 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 Cross City:
- 29.634534, -83.125075
- 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 Cross City
- 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 Dixie County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Dixie County
- Since Cross City is near Gilchrist County and also Levy County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Gilchrist County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Levy 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 Cross City
Communities Also Named Cross City ...
We found one communities that are also named Cross City.
Within Florida, the name Cross City is unique.
Beyond Florida, there is another community also named Cross City in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kansas
- Linn 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 Kansas community of Cross City [Linn County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cross City ...
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.
- Dixietown
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Dixietown is located in Dixie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixietown
- Eugene
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Eugene is located in Dixie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eugene
- Fanning Springs
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Horseshoe
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Horseshoe is located in Dixie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horseshoe
- Jena
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Jena is located in Dixie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jena
- Lottieville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Lottieville is located in Gilchrist County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lottieville
- Manatee Road
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Manatee Road is located in Levy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manatee Road
- Shamrock
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Shamrock is located in Dixie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shamrock
- Yellow Jacket
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Yellow Jacket is located in Dixie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow Jacket
How Far From Cross City 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 town such as Cross City to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Cross City and extending to:
- Tallahassee, which is the State Capital of Florida, lies 88 miles [141.6 km]<3> to the northwest (NW). If you could drive a straight line from Cross City to Tallahassee, with an average speed<4>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 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 727 miles [1,170 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 29 days and walking would take 42 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,573 miles [10,578.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,253 miles [11,672.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,143 miles [8,276.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 Cross City 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Cross City) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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 Cross City 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 Cross City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.6345, Longitude: -83.1251 |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.31 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.014 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.759 degrees. |
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