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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 Piper City, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Piper City 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 Piper City:
- 40.756176, -88.188270
- 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 Piper City
- 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 Ford County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Ford County
- Since Piper City is near Livingston County and also Iroquois County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Livingston County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Iroquois 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 Piper City
Curious and Interesting Names Near Piper City ...
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.
- Campus
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Cereal
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Cereal is located in Livingston County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cereal
- Charlotte
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Crescent City
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Leonard
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Leonard is located in Iroquois County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leonard
- Melvin
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Pitchin
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Pitchin is located in Iroquois County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pitchin
- Risk
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Risk is located in Livingston County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Risk
- Rugby
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Rugby is located in Livingston County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rugby
- Wing
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
How Far From Piper City 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 village such as Piper City to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Piper City and extending to:
- Paxton, which is the Seat of Ford County, lies 21 miles [33.8 km]<2> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Piper City to Paxton, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
- Springfield, which is the State Capital of Illinois, lies 102 miles [164.2 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 604 miles [972 km] to the east (E). 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 6,257 miles [10,069.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,994 miles [11,255.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,876 miles [7,847.2 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Piper City) 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 Piper City 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 Piper City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.7562, Longitude: -88.1883 |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.802 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.591 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.155 degrees. |
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