Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Yorktown, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Yorktown and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Yorktown
- 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 Yorktown:
- 40.735369, -95.154396
- 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 Yorktown
- 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 Page County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Page County
- Since Yorktown is near Atchison County and also Montgomery County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Atchison County
- eBird sighting report for Montgomery 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 Yorktown ...
We found twenty communities that share the name Yorktown.
Within Iowa, the name Yorktown is unique.
Beyond Iowa, we know of another twenty communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Georgia
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Anne Arundel County
- This Yorktown is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 997 miles [1,604.5 km]<1> to the east of the Yorktown that is located in Page County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Yorktown.
- Baltimore County
- This Yorktown is located in Baltimore County and lies 982 miles [1,580.4 km] to the east of the Yorktown that is located in Page County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore County community of Yorktown.
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- Atchison County
- Although located in Atchison County, we don't know the location within the county.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Atchison County community of Yorktown.
- New Jersey
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Tennessee
- Rutherford County
- This Yorktown is located in Rutherford County and lies 574 miles [923.8 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Yorktown that is located in Page County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Yorktown.
- Williamson County
- This Yorktown is located in Williamson County and lies 558 miles [898 km] to the southeast of the Yorktown that is located in Page County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Williamson County community of Yorktown.
- Texas
- Virginia
Curious and Interesting Names Near Yorktown ...
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.
- Climax
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest) - Coin
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coin
- Coin is located in Page County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 175 people
- College Springs
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for College Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for College Springs
- College Springs is located in Page County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 204 people
- Dawsonville
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dawsonville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dawsonville
- Dawsonville is located in Nodaway County (MO)
- Elmo
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south) - Farmers City
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Farmers City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmers City
- Farmers City is located in Atchison County (MO)
- Hepburn
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast) - High Creek
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for High Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Creek
- High Creek is located in Fremont County
- Page Center
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Page Center have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Page Center
- Page Center is located in Page County
- Possum Walk
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Possum Walk have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Possum Walk
- Possum Walk is located in Nodaway County (MO)
- Red Oak
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Oak
- Red Oak is located in Montgomery County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,271 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Red Oak <4>
How Far From Yorktown 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 Yorktown to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Yorktown and extending to:
- Clarinda, which is the Seat of Page County, lies just to the East.
- Des Moines, which is the State Capital of Iowa, lies 99 miles [159.3 km]<1> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Yorktown to Des Moines, with an average speed<5>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 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take three full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 967 miles [1,556.2 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<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,506 miles [10,470.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,256 miles [11,677.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,152 miles [8,291.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Yorktown. 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Yorktown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Yorktown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.7354, Longitude: -95.1544 In this case, the coordinates for Yorktown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 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 Yorktown 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> | 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | 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 Yorktown to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 319.515 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 317.001 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.628 degrees. |