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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 Frenchs, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Frenchs 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 Frenchs:
    • 28.115100, -82.547900
    • 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 Frenchs
  • 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 Hillsborough County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Hillsborough County
    • Since Frenchs is near Pasco County and also Pinellas County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Pasco County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Pinellas 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 Frenchs

Communities Also Named Frenchs ...

We found one communities that are also named Frenchs.

Within Florida, the name Frenchs is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Texas
      • Cass 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 Texas community of Frenchs [Cass County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Frenchs ...

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.

  • Catherine Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Catherine Park is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catherine Park
  • Cypress Meadows
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Cypress Meadows is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Meadows
  • Cypress Trace
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Cypress Trace is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Trace
  • Eaglebrook
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Eaglebrook is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eaglebrook
  • Foxs Corner
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Foxs Corner is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxs Corner
  • Hammock Woods
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Hammock Woods is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammock Woods
  • Hidden Lake
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Hidden Lake is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidden Lake
  • Hunters Glen
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Hunters Glen is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters Glen
  • Keystone Beach
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Keystone Beach is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone Beach
  • Keystone Crossings
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Keystone Crossings is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone Crossings
  • Keystone Groves
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Keystone Groves is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone Groves
  • Lake Calm
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Lake Calm is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Calm
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Lakeshore
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Lakeshore is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeshore
    • Longboat Landing
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Longboat Landing is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longboat Landing
    • Native Woods
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Native Woods is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Native Woods
    • Orange Blossom Creek
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Orange Blossom Creek is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orange Blossom Creek
    • Post Shores
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Post Shores is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Post Shores
    • Reflections
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Reflections is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reflections
    • Rock Lake
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Rock Lake is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Lake
    • Rocky Pond
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Rocky Pond is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Pond
    • Stillwater
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Stillwater is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stillwater
    • Stonegate
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Stonegate is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonegate
    • Sugarwood Grove
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Sugarwood Grove is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugarwood Grove
    • Sunshine Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Sunshine Village is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine Village
    • Top of the Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Top of the Village is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Top of the Village
    • Triple Lake Shores
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Triple Lake Shores is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triple Lake Shores
    • Triple Lakes
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Triple Lakes is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triple Lakes
    • Turtle Creek
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Turtle Creek is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turtle Creek
    • Turtle Crossing
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Turtle Crossing is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turtle Crossing

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

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

  • Tampa, which is the Seat of Hillsborough County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Frenchs to Tampa, 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.
  • Tallahassee, which is the State Capital of Florida, lies 191 miles [307.4 km] to the north northwest (NNW). 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 11 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 808 miles [1,300.3 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 32 days and walking would take 46 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,616 miles [10,647.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,285 miles [11,724.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,184 miles [8,342.8 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Frenchs 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 from Point A (ie- Frenchs) 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 Frenchs 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 Frenchs. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 28.1151, Longitude: -82.5479       In this case, the coordinates for Frenchs have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.889 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.318 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.886 degrees.