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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 Judyville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Judyville and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Judyville:
    • 40.358370, -87.395015
    • 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 Judyville
  • 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 Warren County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Warren County
    • Since Judyville is near Vermilion County and also Fountain County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Vermilion County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Fountain 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 Judyville

Communities Also Named Judyville ...

We found one communities that are also named Judyville.

Within Indiana, the name Judyville is unique.

Beyond Indiana, there is another community also named Judyville in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Kentucky
      • Bourbon 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 Kentucky community of Judyville [Bourbon County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Judyville ...

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.

  • Carbondale
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Carbondale is located in Warren County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbondale
  • Five Points
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Five Points is located in Warren County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
  • Fountain
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Fountain is located in Fountain County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountain
  • Handy
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Handy is located in Benton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Handy
  • Heaton
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Heaton is located in Vermilion County (IL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heaton
  • Hooker Corner
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Hooker Corner is located in Warren County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooker Corner
  • Kramer
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Kramer is located in Warren County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kramer
  • Rainsville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Rainsville is located in Warren County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainsville
  • Rocky Ford
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Rocky Ford is located in Warren County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ford
  • Sycamore Corner
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Sycamore Corner is located in Warren County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sycamore Corner

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Judyville and extending to:

  • Williamsport, which is the Seat of Warren County, lies just to the Southeast.
  • Indianapolis, which is the State Capital of Indiana, lies 76 miles [122.3 km]<2> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Judyville to Indianapolis, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 559 miles [899.6 km] to the east (E). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 22 days and walking would take 32 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,247 miles [10,053.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,981 miles [11,234.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,861 miles [7,823 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Judyville 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Judyville) 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 Judyville 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 Judyville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3584, Longitude: -87.3950       In this case, the coordinates for Judyville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.279 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.937 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.883 degrees.