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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 Carroll Community Estates, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Carroll Community Estates and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Carroll Community Estates
- 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 Carroll Community Estates:
- 42.062485, -94.852485
- 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 Carroll Community Estates
- 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 Carroll County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Carroll County
- Since Carroll Community Estates is near Sac County and also Crawford County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Sac County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Crawford 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 Carroll Community Estates
Curious and Interesting Names Near Carroll Community Estates ...
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.
- Coon Rapids
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Gray
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hart
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Hart is located in Sac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hart
- Herring ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Herring is located in Sac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herring
- Lake City
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Lake View
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Maple River
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Maple River is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple River
- Sac City Junction ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Sac City Junction is located in Sac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sac City Junction
- Vail
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Viola Center
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Viola Center is located in Audubon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viola Center
How Far From Carroll Community Estates 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 city such as Carroll Community Estates to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Carroll Community Estates and extending to:
- Carroll, which is the Seat of Carroll County, lies just to the West Northwest.
- Des Moines, which is the State Capital of Iowa, lies 71 miles [114.3 km]<2> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Carroll Community Estates to Des Moines, with an average speed<3>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 4 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 958 miles [1,541.8 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 38 days and walking would take 55 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,426 miles [10,341.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,178 miles [11,551.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,079 miles [8,173.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Carroll Community Estates) 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 Carroll Community Estates 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 Carroll Community Estates. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.0625, Longitude: -94.8525 In this case, the coordinates for Carroll Community Estates have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 319.36 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 316.993 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.193 degrees. |
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