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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 Fields, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Fields 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 Fields:
    • 39.546158, -86.333325
    • 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 Fields
  • 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 Morgan County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Morgan County
    • Since Fields is near Johnson County and also Hendricks County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Johnson County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Hendricks 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 Fields

Communities Also Named Fields ...

We found eleven communities that are also named Fields.

There is one other community in Indiana that is also named Fields.

Beyond Indiana, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Indiana ...
    • Lake 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 Indiana community of Fields [Lake County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Macon County
      • This Fields is located in Macon County and lies 518 miles [833.6 km]<2> to the south southeast of the Fields that is located in Morgan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Macon County community of Fields.
    • Illinois
      • Will County
      • This Fields is located in Will County and lies 167 miles [268.8 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Fields that is located in Morgan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Will County community of Fields.
    • Louisiana
      • Beauregard Parish
      • This Fields is located in Beauregard Parish and lies 744 miles [1,197.4 km]<2> to the southwest of the Fields that is located in Morgan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Beauregard Parish community of Fields.
    • Michigan
      • Newaygo 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 Michigan community of Fields [Newaygo County].
    • Montana
      • Cascade County
      • This Fields is located in Cascade County and lies 1,354 miles [2,179.1 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Fields that is located in Morgan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cascade County community of Fields.
    • North Carolina
      • Lenoir County
      • This Fields is located in Lenoir County and lies 555 miles [893.2 km]<2> to the east southeast of the Fields that is located in Morgan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lenoir County community of Fields.
    • Ohio
      • Lorain County
      • This Fields is located in Lorain County and lies 260 miles [418.4 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Fields that is located in Morgan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lorain County community of Fields.
    • Oregon
      • Harney County
      • This Fields is located in Harney County and lies 1,688 miles [2,716.6 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Fields that is located in Morgan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harney County community of Fields.
      • Lane County
      • This Fields is located in Lane County and lies 1,863 miles [2,998.2 km] to the west northwest of the Fields that is located in Morgan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lane County community of Fields.
    • Virginia
      • Mecklenburg 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 Virginia community of Fields [Mecklenburg County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Fields ...

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.

  • Allman
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Allman is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allman
  • Bethany
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Bethany is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethany
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 88 people
  • Bluff Creek
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Bluff Creek is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff Creek
  • Clearview
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Clearview is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clearview
  • Cope
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Cope is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cope
  • Deerwood
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Deerwood is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerwood
  • Exchange
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Exchange is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exchange
  • Five Points
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Five Points is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
  • Fox Hill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Fox Hill is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Hill
  • Friendswood
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Friendswood is located in Hendricks County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendswood
  • Gasburg
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Gasburg is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gasburg
  • Joppa
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Joppa is located in Hendricks County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joppa
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Kinder
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Kinder is located in Johnson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinder
    • Red House ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Red House is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red House
    • Waters Edge
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Waters Edge is located in Johnson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waters Edge
    • Young
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Young is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Young

How Far From Fields 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 community such as Fields to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Fields and extending to:

  • Martinsville, which is the Seat of Morgan County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the south southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Fields to Martinsville, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
  • Indianapolis, which is the State Capital of Indiana, lies 17 miles [27.4 km] to the north northeast (NNE). The buggy would take five to six hours and walking would take most of a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 499 miles [803.1 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 20 days and walking would take 29 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,245 miles [10,050.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,974 miles [11,223.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,852 miles [7,808.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 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 Fields 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>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- Fields) 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 Fields 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 Fields. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.5462, Longitude: -86.3333       In this case, the coordinates for Fields have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.588 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.031 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.61 degrees.