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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 Esco, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Esco 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 Esco:
    • 37.367048, -82.550709
    • 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 Esco
  • 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 Pike County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Pike County
    • Since Esco is near Floyd County and also Letcher County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Floyd County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Letcher 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 Esco

Communities Also Named Esco ...

We found one communities that are also named Esco.

Within Kentucky, the name Esco is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Tennessee
      • Union 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 Tennessee community of Esco [Union County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Esco ...

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.

  • Bear Fork
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Bear Fork is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Fork
  • Big Card
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Big Card is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Card
  • Crooked Creek
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Crooked Creek is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crooked Creek
  • Fords Branch
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Fords Branch is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fords Branch
  • Frogtown
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Frogtown is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frogtown
  • Garden Village
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Garden Village is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden Village
  • Greasy Creek
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Greasy Creek is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greasy Creek
  • Henry Clay
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Henry Clay is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henry Clay
  • Indian Creek
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Indian Creek is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Creek
  • Liberty
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Liberty is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty
  • Lookout
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Lookout is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lookout
  • Lower Greasy Creek
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Lower Greasy Creek is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Greasy Creek
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Penny
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Penny is located in Pike County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Penny
    • Pigeon
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Pigeon is located in Pike County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pigeon
    • Robinson Creek
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Robinson Creek is located in Pike County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Creek
    • Turkey Pen
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Turkey Pen is located in Pike County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkey Pen

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

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

  • Pikeville, which is the Seat of Pike County, lies just to the North Northeast.
  • Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 139 miles [223.7 km]<2> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Esco to Frankfort, 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 317 miles [510.2 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 18 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,196 miles [9,971.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,908 miles [11,117.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,784 miles [7,699.1 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 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 Esco 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Esco) 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 Esco 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 Esco. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.3670, Longitude: -82.5507       In this case, the coordinates for Esco have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.229 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.018 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.561 degrees.