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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 Yankeetown, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Yankeetown 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 Yankeetown:
    • 37.917546, -87.297782
    • 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 Yankeetown
  • 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 Yankeetown 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 Yankeetown

Communities Also Named Yankeetown ...

We found eleven communities that are also named Yankeetown.

Within Indiana, the name Yankeetown is unique.

Beyond Indiana, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Levy County
      • This Yankeetown is located in Levy County and lies 667 miles [1,073.4 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Yankeetown that is located in Warrick County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Levy County community of Yankeetown.
    • Illinois
      • Woodford 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 Illinois community of Yankeetown [Woodford County].
    • Minnesota
      • Big Stone County
      • This Yankeetown is located in Big Stone County and lies 713 miles [1,147.5 km]<1> to the northwest of the Yankeetown that is located in Warrick County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Big Stone County community of Yankeetown.
    • Nova Scotia
      • This Yankeetown lies 1,296 miles [2,085.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Yankeetown that is located in Warrick County.
    • Ohio
      • Brown County
      • This Yankeetown is located in Brown County and lies 190 miles [305.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Yankeetown that is located in Warrick County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brown County community of Yankeetown.
      • Darke County
      • This Yankeetown is located in Darke County and lies 196 miles [315.4 km] to the northeast of the Yankeetown that is located in Warrick County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Darke County community of Yankeetown.
      • Fayette County
      • This Yankeetown is located in Fayette County and lies 248 miles [399.1 km] to the east northeast of the Yankeetown that is located in Warrick County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Yankeetown.
      • Ross County
      • This Yankeetown is located in Ross County and lies 246 miles [395.9 km] to the east northeast of the Yankeetown that is located in Warrick County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ross County community of Yankeetown.
      • Tuscarawas County
      • This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Yankeetown [Tuscarawas County].
    • Tennessee
      • White County
      • This Yankeetown is located in White County and lies 168 miles [270.4 km]<1> to the southeast of the Yankeetown that is located in Warrick County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the White County community of Yankeetown.
    • Virginia
      • Rockingham County
      • This Yankeetown is located in Rockingham County and lies 455 miles [732.3 km]<1> to the east of the Yankeetown that is located in Warrick County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockingham County community of Yankeetown.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Yankeetown ...

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
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Bullocktown is located in Warrick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullocktown
  • Dayville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Dayville is located in Warrick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dayville
  • Enterprise
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Enterprise is located in Spencer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enterprise
  • Eureka
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Eureka is located in Spencer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eureka
  • Paradise
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Paradise is located in Warrick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
  • Red Bush
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Red Bush is located in Warrick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bush
  • Reed
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Reed is located in Henderson County (KY)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reed
  • Rustic Hills
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Rustic Hills is located in Warrick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rustic Hills
  • Sand Ridge
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Sand Ridge is located in Spencer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Ridge
  • Spottsville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Spottsville is located in Henderson County (KY)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spottsville
  • Stanley
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)

How Far From Yankeetown to ...

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

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

  • Boonville, which is the Seat of Warrick County, lies just to the North.
  • Indianapolis, which is the State Capital of Indiana, lies 141 miles [226.9 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could drive a straight line from Yankeetown to Indianapolis, with an average speed<5>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 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<6> 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).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,087 miles [11,405.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,963 miles [7,987.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Yankeetown) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Yankeetown 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>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 Yankeetown, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Yankeetown 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 Yankeetown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.9175, Longitude: -87.2978       In this case, the coordinates for Yankeetown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.177 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.476 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.484 degrees.