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 North Pole:
47.904350, -116.742140
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 North Pole
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 Kootenai County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named North Pole.
Within Idaho, the name North Pole is unique.
Beyond Idaho, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alaska
This North Pole lies 1,620 miles [2,607.1 km]<1> to the north northwest of the North Pole that is located in Kootenai County.
Colorado
El Paso 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 Colorado community of North Pole [El Paso County].
New York
Essex County
This North Pole is located in Essex County and lies 2,039 miles [3,281.5 km]<1> to the east of the North Pole that is located in Kootenai County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Essex County community of North Pole.
Oklahoma
McCurtain County
This North Pole is located in McCurtain County and lies 1,476 miles [2,375.4 km]<1> to the east southeast of the North Pole that is located in Kootenai County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the McCurtain County community of North Pole.
Texas
Nueces 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 Texas community of North Pole [Nueces County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near North Pole ...
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.
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 North Pole to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in North Pole and extending to:
Coeur d'Alene, which is the Seat of Kootenai County, lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> to the south. If you could walk a straight line from North Pole to Coeur d'Alene, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Boise, which is the State Capital of Idaho, lies 297 miles [478 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 12 days and walking would take 17 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,061 miles [3,316.9 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 4 days, a buggy would take 81 days and walking would take 118 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,659 miles [10,716.6 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,426 miles [11,951 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,497 miles [8,846.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- North Pole) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 North Pole 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>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>
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.
<5>
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 North Pole 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 North Pole. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.9044, Longitude: -116.7421 In this case, the coordinates for North Pole have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 336.301 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 337.154 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 324.097 degrees.