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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 Safety Harbor, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Safety Harbor 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 Safety Harbor:
- 27.990839, -82.696616
- 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 Safety Harbor
- 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 Pinellas County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Pinellas County
- Since Safety Harbor is near Hillsborough County and also Pasco County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Hillsborough County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Pasco 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 Safety Harbor
Communities Also Named Safety Harbor ...
We found one communities that are also named Safety Harbor.
There is one other community in Florida that is also named Safety Harbor.
Beyond Florida.
- Communities Located In Florida ...
- Hillsborough 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 Florida community of Safety Harbor [Hillsborough County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Safety Harbor ...
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.
- Clearwater
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Clearwater Beach
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Coachman
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Coachman is located in Pinellas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coachman
- Fawn Ridge Village
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Fawn Ridge Village is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fawn Ridge Village
- Feather Sound
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Four Corners
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Harbor Palms
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Harbor Palms is located in Pinellas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor Palms
- Harbor View
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Harbor View is located in Pinellas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor View
- High Point
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- High Point is located in Pinellas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Point
- Highpoint
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Highpoint is located in Pinellas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highpoint
- Holiday Village
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Holiday Village is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Village
- Jane Terrace
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Jane Terrace is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jane Terrace
- Continue List (12 more) ...
- Lane Farms
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Lane Farms is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lane Farms
- Mandolin
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Mandolin is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mandolin
- Meadow Brook
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Meadow Brook is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Brook
- Palm Bay
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Palm Bay is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm Bay
- Palm Harbor
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Pebblebrook
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Pebblebrook is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pebblebrook
- Rainbow Court
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Rainbow Court is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainbow Court
- Rocky Creek
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Rocky Creek is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Creek
- Rocky Ford
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Rocky Ford is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ford
- Saltmarsh
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Saltmarsh is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saltmarsh
- Waterfront Cove
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Waterfront Cove is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterfront Cove
- Wood Lake
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Wood Lake is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wood Lake
How Far From Safety Harbor 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 city such as Safety Harbor to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Safety Harbor and extending to:
- Clearwater, which is the Seat of Pinellas County, lies just to the West Southwest.
- Tallahassee, which is the State Capital of Florida, lies 194 miles [312.2 km]<3> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Safety Harbor to Tallahassee, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take a little over three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 11 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 8 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 820 miles [1,319.7 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 32 days and walking would take 47 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,628 miles [10,666.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,298 miles [11,745 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,196 miles [8,362.2 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 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 Safety Harbor 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Safety Harbor) 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 Safety Harbor 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 Safety Harbor. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 27.9908, Longitude: -82.6966 |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.958 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.38 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.958 degrees. |
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