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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 Stone Fort, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Stone Fort 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 Stone Fort:
- 37.623384, -89.196749
- 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 Stone Fort
- 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 Jackson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Jackson County
- Since Stone Fort is near Williamson County and also Union County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Williamson County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Union 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 Stone Fort
Communities Also Named Stone Fort ...
We found one communities that are also named Stone Fort.
There is one other community in Illinois that is also named Stone Fort.
Beyond Illinois.
- Communities Located In Illinois ...
- Saline County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Stone Fort [Saline County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Stone Fort ...
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.
- Anna
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Carbondale
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Carterville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Crainville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Crainville is located in Williamson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crainville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,419 people
- Evergreen Terrace
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Evergreen Terrace is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen Terrace
- Lick Creek
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Lick Creek is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lick Creek
- Mason
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Mason is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mason
- Mountain Glen
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Mountain Glen is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Glen
- Poplar Ridge
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Poplar Ridge is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Ridge
- Reeds Station
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Reeds Station is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reeds Station
- Texas Junction
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Texas Junction is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Texas Junction
- Water Valley
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Water Valley is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Water Valley
- Wolf Creek
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Wolf Creek is located in Williamson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolf Creek
How Far From Stone Fort 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 Stone Fort to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Stone Fort and extending to:
- Murphysboro, which is the Seat of Jackson County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<3> to the northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Stone Fort to Murphysboro, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
- Springfield, which is the State Capital of Illinois, lies 151 miles [243 km] to the north (N). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 664 miles [1,068.6 km] to the east (E). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 26 days and walking would take 38 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,448 miles [10,377.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,178 miles [11,551.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,055 miles [8,135.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Stone Fort 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. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Stone Fort) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Stone Fort 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 Stone Fort. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.6234, Longitude: -89.1967 In this case, the coordinates for Stone Fort have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.381 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.821 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.415 degrees. |
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