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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 High Knob, we use the following websites to find information relevant to High Knob 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 High Knob:
    • 37.286200, -83.907147
    • 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 High Knob
  • 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 Jackson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Jackson County
    • Since High Knob is near Clay County and also Laurel County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Clay County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Laurel 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 High Knob

Communities Also Named High Knob ...

We found two communities that are also named High Knob.

There is one other community in Kentucky that is also named High Knob.

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

  • Communities Located In Kentucky ...
    • Clay 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 Kentucky community of High Knob [Clay County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Maryland
      • Frederick 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 Maryland community of High Knob [Frederick County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near High Knob ...

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.

  • Blooming Grove
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Blooming Grove is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blooming Grove
  • Bond
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Bond is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bond
  • Buffalo
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Buffalo is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo
  • Burning Springs
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Burning Springs is located in Clay County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burning Springs
  • Cornelius
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Cornelius is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornelius
  • Egypt
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Egypt is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egypt
  • Green Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Green Hill is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Hill
  • Herd
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Herd is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herd
  • Lewis
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Lewis is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewis
  • Mildred
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Mildred is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mildred
  • Shepherdtown
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Shepherdtown is located in Clay County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shepherdtown
  • Stringtown
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Stringtown is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stringtown
  • Vine
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Vine is located in Clay County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vine

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

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

  • McKee, which is the Seat of Jackson County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the north northwest. If you could walk a straight line from High Knob to McKee, with an average speed<3> 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.
  • Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 82 miles [132 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 389 miles [626 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 23 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,255 miles [10,066.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,970 miles [11,217.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,846 miles [7,798.9 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 High Knob 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' (or 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- High Knob) 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 High Knob 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 High Knob. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2862, Longitude: -83.9071       In this case, the coordinates for High Knob have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.053 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.95 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.163 degrees.