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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 Rustic Hills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Rustic Hills 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 Rustic Hills:
    • 37.955600, -87.367508
    • 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 Rustic Hills
  • 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 Warrick County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Warrick County
    • Since Rustic Hills is near Henderson County and also Spencer County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Henderson County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Spencer 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 Rustic Hills

Communities Also Named Rustic Hills ...

We found three communities that are also named Rustic Hills.

Within Indiana, the name Rustic Hills is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • El Paso 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 Colorado community of Rustic Hills [El Paso County].
    • Maryland
      • Saint Mary's County
      • This Rustic Hills is located in Saint Mary's County and lies 577 miles [928.6 km]<2> to the east of the Rustic Hills that is located in Warrick County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Mary's County community of Rustic Hills.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Dauphin County
      • This Rustic Hills is located in Dauphin County and lies 587 miles [944.7 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Rustic Hills that is located in Warrick County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dauphin County community of Rustic Hills.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Rustic Hills ...

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.

  • Bullocktown
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Bullocktown is located in Warrick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullocktown
  • Castle Garden
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Castle Garden is located in Warrick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Garden
  • Center
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Center is located in Warrick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center
  • Dayville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Dayville is located in Warrick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dayville
  • Paradise
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Paradise is located in Warrick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
  • Red Bush
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Red Bush is located in Warrick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bush
  • Reed
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Reed is located in Henderson County (KY)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reed
  • Spottsville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Spottsville is located in Henderson County (KY)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spottsville
  • Yankeetown
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Yankeetown is located in Warrick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yankeetown

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

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

  • Boonville, which is the Seat of Warrick County, lies just to the Northeast.
  • Indianapolis, which is the State Capital of Indiana, lies 140 miles [225.3 km]<2> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Rustic Hills to Indianapolis, with an average speed<3>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 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 562 miles [904.5 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 6,361 miles [10,237 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,088 miles [11,407 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,964 miles [7,988.8 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 Rustic Hills 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Rustic Hills) 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 Rustic Hills 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 Rustic Hills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.9556, Longitude: -87.3675       In this case, the coordinates for Rustic Hills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.222 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.534 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.506 degrees.