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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 Yorkville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Yorkville 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 Yorkville:
- 41.665719, -88.441949
- 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 Yorkville
- 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 Kendall County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Kendall County
- Since Yorkville is near Kane County and also DeKalb County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Kane County
- Open the eBird sighting report for DeKalb 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 Yorkville
Communities Also Named Yorkville ...
We found fourteen communities that are also named Yorkville.
Within Illinois, the name Yorkville is unique.
Beyond Illinois, we know of fourteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- Mendocino County
- This Yorkville is located in Mendocino County and lies 1,829 miles [2,943.5 km]<1> to the west of the Yorkville that is located in Kendall County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mendocino County community of Yorkville.
- Colorado
- Fremont County
- This Yorkville is located in Fremont County and lies 919 miles [1,479 km]<1> to the west of the Yorkville that is located in Kendall County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fremont County community of Yorkville.
- Georgia
- Paulding County
- This Yorkville is located in Paulding County and lies 566 miles [910.9 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Yorkville that is located in Kendall County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Paulding County community of Yorkville.
- Indiana
- Dearborn County
- This Yorkville is located in Dearborn County and lies 249 miles [400.7 km]<1> to the southeast of the Yorkville that is located in Kendall County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dearborn County community of Yorkville.
- Michigan
- Kalamazoo County
- This Yorkville is located in Kalamazoo County and lies 163 miles [262.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Yorkville that is located in Kendall County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kalamazoo County community of Yorkville.
- New York
- New York County
- This Yorkville is located in New York County and lies 754 miles [1,213.4 km]<1> to the east of the Yorkville that is located in Kendall County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the New York County community of Yorkville.
- Oneida County
- This Yorkville is located in Oneida County and lies 678 miles [1,091.1 km] to the east northeast of the Yorkville that is located in Kendall County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oneida County community of Yorkville.
- Ohio
- Belmont County
- This Yorkville is located in Belmont County and lies 416 miles [669.5 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Yorkville that is located in Kendall County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Belmont County community of Yorkville.
- Ontario
- We haven't found the location of this community yet.
- South Carolina
- York 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 South Carolina community of Yorkville [York County].
- Tennessee
- Gibson County
- This Yorkville is located in Gibson County and lies 386 miles [621.2 km]<1> to the south of the Yorkville that is located in Kendall County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Gibson County community of Yorkville.
- Virginia
- York County
- This Yorkville is located in York County and lies 711 miles [1,144.2 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Yorkville that is located in Kendall County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the York County community of Yorkville.
- West Virginia
- Wayne 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 West Virginia community of Yorkville [Wayne County].
- Wisconsin
- Racine County
- This Yorkville is located in Racine County and lies 77 miles [123.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Yorkville that is located in Kendall County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Racine County community of Yorkville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Yorkville ...
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.
- Aurora
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Big Rock
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Blackberry Woods
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Blackberry Woods is located in Kane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackberry Woods
- Boulder Hill
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Boulder Hill is located in Kendall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boulder Hill
- Countryside
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Countryside is located in Kendall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Countryside
- Fox
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Fox is located in Kendall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox
- Kentland
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Kentland is located in Kendall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentland
- Knob Hill
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Knob Hill is located in Kendall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knob Hill
- Little Rock
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Little Rock is located in Kendall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Rock
- Pavillion
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Pavillion is located in Kendall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pavillion
- Sandwich
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- South Park
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- South Park is located in Kane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Park
- Sugar Grove
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Wheatland Plains
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Wheatland Plains is located in Will County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheatland Plains
How Far From Yorkville 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 city such as Yorkville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Yorkville and extending to:
- Springfield, which is the State Capital of Illinois, lies 144 miles [231.7 km]<1> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could drive a straight line from Yorkville to Springfield, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 629 miles [1,012.3 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 25 days and walking would take 36 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,222 miles [10,013.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,962 miles [11,204.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,846 miles [7,798.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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- Yorkville) 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Yorkville 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 Yorkville 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 Yorkville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.6657, Longitude: -88.4419 In this case, the coordinates for Yorkville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.974 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.915 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.028 degrees. |
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