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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 Frielings, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Frielings 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 Frielings:
- 41.160588, -88.113108
- 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 Frielings
- 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 Kankakee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Kankakee County
- Since Frielings is near Will County and also Grundy County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Will County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Grundy 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 Frielings
Curious and Interesting Names Near Frielings ...
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.
- Blair
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Blair is located in Livingston County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair
- Braidwood
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Centerville ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Centerville is located in Grundy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
- Coal City
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Diamond
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Dickeys
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Dickeys is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dickeys
- Flickerville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Flickerville is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flickerville
- Greenwich
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Greenwich is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwich
- Irwin
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Irwin is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irwin
- Population from the 2020 Census: 71 people
- Limestone
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Limestone is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limestone
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,498 people
- Pilot Center ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Pilot Center is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilot Center
- Resthaven
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Resthaven is located in Will County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Resthaven
- Union Hill
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
How Far From Frielings to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Frielings to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Frielings and extending to:
- Kankakee, which is the Seat of Kankakee County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<2> to the east southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Frielings to Kankakee, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
- Springfield, which is the State Capital of Illinois, lies 124 miles [199.6 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 605 miles [973.7 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 24 days and walking would take 35 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,235 miles [10,034.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,972 miles [11,220.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,855 miles [7,813.4 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 '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- Frielings) 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 Frielings 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 Frielings. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.1606, Longitude: -88.1131 In this case, the coordinates for Frielings have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.755 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.594 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.007 degrees. |
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