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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 Cotton, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Cotton 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 Cotton:
- 43.426303, -112.088305
- 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 Cotton
- 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 Bonneville County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Bonneville County
- Since Cotton is near Bingham County and also Jefferson County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Bingham County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Jefferson 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 Cotton
Communities Also Named Cotton ...
We found eight communities that are also named Cotton.
Within Idaho, the name Cotton is unique.
Beyond Idaho, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Elmore County
- This Cotton is located in Elmore County and lies 1,590 miles [2,558.9 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Cotton that is located in Bonneville County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Elmore County community of Cotton.
- Georgia
- Mitchell County
- This Cotton is located in Mitchell County and lies 1,744 miles [2,806.7 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Cotton that is located in Bonneville County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mitchell County community of Cotton.
- Michigan
- Kalkaska County
- This Cotton is located in Kalkaska County and lies 1,338 miles [2,153.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Cotton that is located in Bonneville County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kalkaska County community of Cotton.
- Minnesota
- Saint Louis County
- This Cotton is located in Saint Louis County and lies 984 miles [1,583.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Cotton that is located in Bonneville County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Louis County community of Cotton.
- South Carolina
- York County
- This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the South Carolina community of Cotton [York County].
- Texas
- Fannin County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Cotton [Fannin County].
- Grimes County
- This Cotton is located in Grimes County and lies 1,241 miles [1,997.2 km]<1> to the southeast of the Cotton that is located in Bonneville County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grimes County community of Cotton.
- West Virginia
- Roane County
- This Cotton is located in Roane County and lies 1,627 miles [2,618.4 km]<1> to the east of the Cotton that is located in Bonneville County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Roane County community of Cotton.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cotton ...
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.
- Bone
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Bone is located in Bonneville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bone
- Firth
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Grant
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Grant is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant
- Idaho Falls
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Lincoln
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Lincoln is located in Bonneville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln
- Mitchell
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Mitchell is located in Bingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchell
- Ozone
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Ozone is located in Bonneville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ozone
- Rising River
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Rising River is located in Bingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rising River
- Rose
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Rose is located in Bingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose
- Wolverine
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Wolverine is located in Bingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolverine
How Far From Cotton 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 Cotton to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Cotton and extending to:
- Idaho Falls, which is the Seat of Bonneville County, lies just to the North Northeast.
- Boise, which is the State Capital of Idaho, lies 206 miles [331.5 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could drive a straight line from Cotton to Boise, with an average speed<5>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 1,834 miles [2,951.5 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 72 days and walking would take 105 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,840 miles [11,007.9 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,609 miles [12,245.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,608 miles [9,025.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Cotton) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | 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 Cotton, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Cotton 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. |
| <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 Cotton 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 Cotton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.4263, Longitude: -112.0883 In this case, the coordinates for Cotton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 332.305 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 332.16 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 321.659 degrees. |
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