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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 Winston Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Winston Park 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 Winston Park:
    • 27.940200, -82.376000
    • 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 Winston Park
  • 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 Winston Park is near Pinellas County and also Pasco County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Pinellas 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 Winston Park

Communities Also Named Winston Park ...

We found four communities that are also named Winston Park.

Within Florida, the name Winston Park is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Illinois
      • Cook 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 Illinois community of Winston Park [Cook County].
    • Kentucky
      • Kenton County
      • This Winston Park is located in Kenton County and lies 776 miles [1,248.9 km]<2> to the north of the Winston Park that is located in Hillsborough County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kenton County community of Winston Park.
    • New Jersey
      • Monmouth County
      • This Winston Park is located in Monmouth County and lies 962 miles [1,548.2 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Winston Park that is located in Hillsborough County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monmouth County community of Winston Park.
    • Ontario
      • 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 Ontario community of Winston Park.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Winston Park ...

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.

  • Berryhill
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Berryhill is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berryhill
  • Bunchville
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Bunchville is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunchville
  • Easy Way
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Easy Way is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Easy Way
  • Enterprise
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Enterprise is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enterprise
  • Eucalyptus Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Eucalyptus Park is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eucalyptus Park
  • Everett
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Everett is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Everett
  • Faith Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Faith Park is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Faith Park
  • Florence Villa
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Florence Villa is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence Villa
  • Gold Rush
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Gold Rush is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Rush
  • Jessie Heights
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Jessie Heights is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jessie Heights
  • Legacy Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Legacy Park is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Legacy Park
  • Lukes
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Lukes is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lukes
  • Continue List   (11 more) ...
    • Michigan Broadway
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Michigan Broadway is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Michigan Broadway
    • Missouri Park
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Missouri Park is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Missouri Park
    • Orient Park
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Orient Park is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orient Park
    • Palm River
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Palm River is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm River
    • Progress Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Progress Village is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Progress Village
    • Sixmile Creek
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Sixmile Creek is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sixmile Creek
    • Speedway Park
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Speedway Park is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Speedway Park
    • Spillers
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Spillers is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spillers
    • Sugarcreek
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Sugarcreek is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugarcreek
    • Tradewinds
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Tradewinds is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tradewinds
    • Triangle
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Triangle is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triangle

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

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

  • Tampa, which is the Seat of Hillsborough County, lies just to the West Northwest.
  • Tallahassee, which is the State Capital of Florida, lies 207 miles [333.1 km]<2> to the north northwest (NNW). If you could drive a straight line from Winston Park to Tallahassee, with an average speed<3>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 12 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 8 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 816 miles [1,313.2 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<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 7,284 miles [11,722.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,183 miles [8,341.2 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 Winston Park 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 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Winston Park) 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 Winston Park 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 Winston Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 27.9402, Longitude: -82.3760       In this case, the coordinates for Winston Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.784 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.173 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.866 degrees.