Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Barnesville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Barnesville and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Barnesville
- 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 Barnesville:
- 38.015431, -94.663793
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Barnesville
- 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 Bourbon County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Bourbon County
- Since Barnesville is near Linn County and also Vernon County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Linn County
- eBird sighting report for Vernon 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Barnesville ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Barnesville.
Within Kansas, the name Barnesville is unique.
Beyond Kansas, we know of another seventeen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seventeen communities, sixteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Marion County
- This Barnesville is located in Marion County and lies 454 miles [730.6 km]<1> to the southeast of the Barnesville that is located in Bourbon County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Marion County community of Barnesville.
- Tallapoosa County
- This Barnesville is located in Tallapoosa County and lies 618 miles [994.6 km] to the southeast of the Barnesville that is located in Bourbon County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tallapoosa County community of Barnesville.
- Colorado
- Weld County
- This Barnesville is located in Weld County and lies 551 miles [886.7 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Barnesville that is located in Bourbon County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Weld County community of Barnesville.
- Connecticut
- New Haven County
- This Barnesville is located in New Haven County and lies 1,175 miles [1,891 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Barnesville that is located in Bourbon County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Haven County community of Barnesville.
- Georgia
- Lamar County
- This Barnesville is located in Lamar County and lies 681 miles [1,096 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Barnesville that is located in Bourbon County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lamar County community of Barnesville.
- Pike 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 Georgia community of Barnesville [Pike County].
- Maryland
- Montgomery County
- This Barnesville is located in Montgomery County and lies 934 miles [1,503.1 km]<1> to the east of the Barnesville that is located in Bourbon County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Barnesville.
- Minnesota
- Clay County
- This Barnesville is located in Clay County and lies 602 miles [968.8 km]<1> to the north of the Barnesville that is located in Bourbon County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clay County community of Barnesville.
- Mississippi
- DeSoto County
- This Barnesville is located in DeSoto County and lies 328 miles [527.9 km]<1> to the southeast of the Barnesville that is located in Bourbon County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the DeSoto County community of Barnesville.
- Missouri
- Clinton County
- This Barnesville is located in Clinton County and lies 105 miles [169 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Barnesville that is located in Bourbon County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clinton County community of Barnesville.
- Macon County
- This Barnesville is located in Macon County and lies 171 miles [275.2 km] to the northeast of the Barnesville that is located in Bourbon County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Macon County community of Barnesville.
- New Brunswick
- This Barnesville lies 1,567 miles [2,521.8 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Barnesville that is located in Bourbon County.
- North Carolina
- Robeson County
- This Barnesville is located in Robeson County and lies 903 miles [1,453.2 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Barnesville that is located in Bourbon County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Robeson County community of Barnesville.
- Ohio
- Belmont County
- This Barnesville is located in Belmont County and lies 735 miles [1,182.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Barnesville that is located in Bourbon County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Belmont County community of Barnesville.
- Pennsylvania
- Schuylkill County
- This Barnesville is located in Schuylkill County and lies 1,010 miles [1,625.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Barnesville that is located in Bourbon County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Schuylkill County community of Barnesville.
- Tennessee
- Lawrence County
- This Barnesville is located in Lawrence County and lies 440 miles [708.1 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Barnesville that is located in Bourbon County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lawrence County community of Barnesville.
- Virginia
- Charlotte 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 Virginia community of Barnesville [Charlotte County].
- Alabama
Curious and Interesting Names Near Barnesville ...
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.
- Amos
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east) - Bell Town ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south) - Berlin
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest) - Eve
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south) - Katy
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south) - Mound City
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mound City
- Mound City is located in Linn County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 672 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mound City <5>
- New Home
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast) - Richards
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast) - Rock
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east) - Temple ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
How Far From Barnesville 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 Barnesville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic<6> community of Barnesville once stood, the straight-line distance beginning in Barnesville and extending to:
- Fort Scott, which is the Seat of Bourbon County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the south southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Barnesville to Fort Scott, with an average speed<7> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
- Topeka, which is the State Capital of Kansas, lies 89 miles [143.2 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 953 miles [1,533.7 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 38 days and walking would take 55 days.
- The shortest distance<8> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,631 miles [10,671.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,374 miles [11,867.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,260 miles [8,465.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<11>
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Bourbon County: www.bourboncountyks.org/
The official website for State of Kansas: https://portal.kansas.gov/
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- Barnesville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Barnesville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.0154, Longitude: -94.6638 In this case, the coordinates for Barnesville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 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 Barnesville 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> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <6> | 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 Barnesville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <7> | 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. |
| <8> | 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 Barnesville to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 319.019 degrees. |
| <10> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 316.077 degrees. |
| <11> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.904 degrees. |