Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Cedar Valley, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Cedar Valley and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Cedar Valley
- 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 Cedar Valley:
- 41.726553, -91.247280
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Cedar Valley
- 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 Cedar County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Cedar County
- Since Cedar Valley is near Johnson County and also Muscatine County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Johnson County
- eBird sighting report for Muscatine 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Cedar Valley ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Cedar Valley.
Within Iowa, the name Cedar Valley is unique.
Beyond Iowa, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and five are in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Madison County
- This Cedar Valley is located in Madison County and lies 539 miles [867.4 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Cedar Valley that is located in Cedar County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Madison County community of Cedar Valley.
- Georgia
- Carroll County
- This Cedar Valley is located in Carroll County and lies 652 miles [1,049.3 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Cedar Valley that is located in Cedar County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Carroll County community of Cedar Valley.
- DeKalb County
- This Cedar Valley is located in DeKalb County and lies 673 miles [1,083.1 km] to the southeast of the Cedar Valley that is located in Cedar County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the DeKalb County community of Cedar Valley.
- Polk County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Cedar Valley [Polk County].
- Whitfield County
- This Cedar Valley is located in Whitfield County and lies 585 miles [941.5 km] to the southeast of the Cedar Valley that is located in Cedar County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Whitfield County community of Cedar Valley.
- Missouri
- Butler County
- This Cedar Valley is located in Butler County and lies 345 miles [555.2 km]<1> to the south of the Cedar Valley that is located in Cedar County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butler County community of Cedar Valley.
- Taney County
- This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Cedar Valley [Taney County].
- North Carolina
- Caldwell County
- This Cedar Valley is located in Caldwell County and lies 662 miles [1,065.4 km]<1> to the southeast of the Cedar Valley that is located in Cedar County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Caldwell County community of Cedar Valley.
- Ohio
- Wayne County
- This Cedar Valley is located in Wayne County and lies 481 miles [774.1 km]<1> to the east of the Cedar Valley that is located in Cedar County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Cedar Valley.
- Oklahoma
- Logan County
- This Cedar Valley is located in Logan County and lies 525 miles [844.9 km]<1> to the southwest of the Cedar Valley that is located in Cedar County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Logan County community of Cedar Valley.
- Ontario
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Cedar Valley.
- Tennessee
- Sullivan County
- This Cedar Valley is located in Sullivan County and lies 601 miles [967.2 km]<1> to the southeast of the Cedar Valley that is located in Cedar County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sullivan County community of Cedar Valley.
- Texas
- Bell County
- This Cedar Valley is located in Bell County and lies 827 miles [1,330.9 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Cedar Valley that is located in Cedar County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bell County community of Cedar Valley.
- Travis County
- This Cedar Valley is located in Travis County and lies 877 miles [1,411.4 km] to the south southwest of the Cedar Valley that is located in Cedar County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Travis County community of Cedar Valley.
- Utah
- Utah County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Utah community of Cedar Valley [Utah County].
- Virginia
- Radford City
- This Cedar Valley is located in Radford City and lies 652 miles [1,049.3 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Cedar Valley that is located in Cedar County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Radford City community of Cedar Valley.
- Washington
- Snohomish County
- This Cedar Valley is located in Snohomish County and lies 1,567 miles [2,521.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Cedar Valley that is located in Cedar County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Snohomish County community of Cedar Valley.
- Alabama
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cedar Valley ...
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.
- Cedar Bluff
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Bluff
- Cedar Bluff is located in Cedar County
- Clarence
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarence
- Clarence is located in Cedar County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 965 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clarence <4>
- Graham ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west) - Lime City
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast) - Mechanicsville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mechanicsville
- Mechanicsville is located in Cedar County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,116 people
- Morse
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west) - Moscow
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moscow
- Moscow is located in Muscatine County
- Oasis
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oasis
- Oasis is located in Johnson County
- Plato
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
How Far From Cedar Valley 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 community such as Cedar Valley to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Cedar Valley and extending to:
- Tipton, which is the Seat of Cedar County, lies just to the East Northeast.
- Des Moines, which is the State Capital of Iowa, lies 122 miles [196.3 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Cedar Valley to Des Moines, with an average speed<6>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 772 miles [1,242.4 km] to the east (E). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 31 days and walking would take 44 days.
- The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,320 miles [10,171.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,065 miles [11,370 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,955 miles [7,974.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Cedar Valley. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for State of Iowa: https://www.iowa.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 from Point A (ie- Cedar Valley) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cedar Valley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7266, Longitude: -91.2473 |
| <2> | 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 Cedar Valley 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. |
| <3> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Cedar Valley, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <6> | 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. |
| <7> | 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 Cedar Valley to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.863 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.083 degrees. |
| <10> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.417 degrees. |