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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 Coraville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Coraville 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 Coraville:
    • 37.730599, -87.471395
    • 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 Coraville
  • 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 Henderson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Henderson County
    • Since Coraville is near Daviess County and also McLean County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Daviess County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for McLean 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 Coraville

Communities Also Named Coraville ...

We found one communities that are also named Coraville.

Within Kentucky, the name Coraville is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, there is another community also named Coraville in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Kansas
      • Haskell 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 Kansas community of Coraville [Haskell County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Coraville ...

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.

  • Bluff City
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Bluff City is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff City
  • Cairo
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Cairo is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cairo
  • Curdsville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Curdsville is located in Daviess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curdsville
  • Delaware
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Delaware is located in Daviess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delaware
  • Elba
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Elba is located in McLean County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elba
  • Graham Hill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Graham Hill is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graham Hill
  • Rangers Landing
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Rangers Landing is located in McLean County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rangers Landing
  • Spottsville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Spottsville is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spottsville
  • Steamport Landing
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Steamport Landing is located in Webster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steamport Landing
  • Tunnel Hill
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Tunnel Hill is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunnel Hill
  • Zion
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Zion is located in Henderson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zion

How Far From Coraville to ...

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Coraville and extending to:

  • Henderson, which is the Seat of Henderson County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Coraville to Henderson, with an average speed<3> 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.
  • Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 145 miles [233.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 570 miles [917.3 km] to the east (E). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 23 days and walking would take 33 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,376 miles [10,261.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,102 miles [11,429.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,979 miles [8,012.9 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 Coraville 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Coraville) 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 Coraville 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 Coraville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.7306, Longitude: -87.4714       In this case, the coordinates for Coraville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.282 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.571 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.609 degrees.