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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 Wakarusa, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Wakarusa 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 Wakarusa:
- 41.536062, -86.020951
- 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 Wakarusa
- 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 Elkhart County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Elkhart County
- Since Wakarusa is near Saint Joseph County and also Marshall County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Saint Joseph County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Marshall 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 Wakarusa
Communities Also Named Wakarusa ...
We found three communities that are also named Wakarusa.
Within Indiana, the name Wakarusa is unique.
Beyond Indiana, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kansas
- Douglas County
- This community is historic<1> and although located in Douglas County, we don't know where within the county.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Douglas County community of Wakarusa.
- Osage 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 Kansas community of Wakarusa [Osage County].
- Shawnee County
- This Wakarusa is located in Shawnee County and lies 541 miles [870.7 km]<3> to the west southwest of the Wakarusa that is located in Elkhart County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shawnee County community of Wakarusa.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Wakarusa ...
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.
- De Camp Gardens
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- De Camp Gardens is located in Elkhart County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Camp Gardens
- Elkhart
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Garden Village
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Garden Village is located in Elkhart County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden Village
- Jamestown
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Lakeville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Locke
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Locke is located in Elkhart County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locke
- New Paris
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Nutwood
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Shady Banks
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Shady Banks is located in Kosciusko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Banks
How Far From Wakarusa 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 town such as Wakarusa to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Wakarusa and extending to:
- Goshen, which is the Seat of Elkhart County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Wakarusa to Goshen, 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 122 miles [196.3 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 507 miles [815.9 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 20 days and walking would take 29 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,139 miles [9,879.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,873 miles [11,061 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,754 miles [7,650.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Wakarusa, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Wakarusa 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> | 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 from Point A (ie- Wakarusa) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Wakarusa 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 Wakarusa. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.5361, Longitude: -86.0210 |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.378 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.077 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.879 degrees. |
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