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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 McCarty, we use the following websites to find information relevant to McCarty 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 McCarty:
    • 39.609214, -86.131098
    • 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 McCarty
  • 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 Johnson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Johnson County
    • Since McCarty is near Marion County and also Morgan County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Marion County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Morgan 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 McCarty

Communities Also Named McCarty ...

We found six communities that are also named McCarty.

Within Indiana, the name McCarty is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Maine
      • Piscataquis County
      • This McCarty is located in Piscataquis County and lies 972 miles [1,564.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the McCarty that is located in Johnson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Piscataquis County community of McCarty.
    • Missouri
      • Pemiscot County
      • This McCarty is located in Pemiscot County and lies 309 miles [497.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the McCarty that is located in Johnson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pemiscot County community of McCarty.
    • New Mexico
      • Cibola County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Cibola County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cibola County community of McCarty.
    • Ohio
      • Adams County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Adams County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Adams County community of McCarty.
    • Oklahoma
      • Garvin County
      • This McCarty is located in Garvin County and lies 703 miles [1,131.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the McCarty that is located in Johnson County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Garvin County community of McCarty.
    • Tennessee
      • Hamilton County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of McCarty [Hamilton County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near McCarty ...

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.

  • Clearview
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Clearview is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clearview
  • Eagle Trace
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Eagle Trace is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Trace
  • El Dorado
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • El Dorado is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Dorado
  • Frances
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Frances is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frances
  • Glenns Valley
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Glenns Valley is located in Marion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenns Valley
  • Golden Grove
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Golden Grove is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Grove
  • Green Valley
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Green Valley is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Valley
  • Greenwood
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Homecroft
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Homecroft is located in Marion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homecroft
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 764 people
  • Hunters Pointe
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Hunters Pointe is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters Pointe
  • Imperial Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Imperial Hills is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Imperial Hills
  • Pebble Hills
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Pebble Hills is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pebble Hills
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Pebble Run
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Pebble Run is located in Johnson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pebble Run
    • Stones Crossing
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Stones Crossing is located in Johnson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stones Crossing
    • Twin Brooks
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Twin Brooks is located in Marion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Brooks
    • Waters Edge
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Waters Edge is located in Johnson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waters Edge
    • Willow Lakes
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Willow Lakes is located in Johnson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Lakes
    • Woodland Stream
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Woodland Stream is located in Johnson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodland Stream

How Far From McCarty to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as McCarty to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Franklin, which is the Seat of Johnson County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from McCarty to Franklin, with an average speed<5> 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 11 miles [17.7 km] to the north (N). The buggy would take nearly four hours and walking would take five to six hours.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 488 miles [785.4 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 19 days and walking would take 28 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,234 miles [10,032.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,963 miles [11,205.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,841 miles [7,790.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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 drawn from Point A (ie- McCarty) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about McCarty, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 McCarty 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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.
<6>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 McCarty 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 McCarty. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.6092, Longitude: -86.1311       In this case, the coordinates for McCarty have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.459 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.892 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.498 degrees.