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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 Holliday, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Holliday 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 Holliday:
    • 37.810923, -83.222954
    • 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 Holliday
  • 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 Morgan County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Morgan County
    • Since Holliday is near Magoffin County and also Wolfe County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Magoffin County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Wolfe 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 Holliday

Communities Also Named Holliday ...

We found eight communities that are also named Holliday.

Within Kentucky, the name Holliday is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, we know of eight communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eight communities, seven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Illinois
      • Fayette County
      • This Holliday is located in Fayette County and lies 317 miles [510.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Holliday that is located in Morgan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Holliday.
    • Kansas
      • Johnson County
      • This Holliday is located in Johnson County and lies 631 miles [1,015.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Holliday that is located in Morgan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Johnson County community of Holliday.
    • Missouri
      • Monroe County
      • This Holliday is located in Monroe County and lies 493 miles [793.4 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Holliday that is located in Morgan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Monroe County community of Holliday.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Cumberland County
      • This Holliday is located in Cumberland County and lies 373 miles [600.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Holliday that is located in Morgan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cumberland County community of Holliday.
    • Quebec
      • This Holliday lies 944 miles [1,519.2 km]<1> to the northeast of the Holliday that is located in Morgan County.
    • Texas
      • Archer County
      • This Holliday is located in Archer County and lies 907 miles [1,459.7 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Holliday that is located in Morgan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Archer County community of Holliday.
    • Virginia
      • Hanover County
      • This Holliday is located in Hanover County and lies 306 miles [492.5 km]<1> to the east of the Holliday that is located in Morgan County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hanover County community of Holliday.
    • West Virginia
      • Greenbrier 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 West Virginia community of Holliday [Greenbrier County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Holliday ...

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.

  • Edna
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Edna is located in Magoffin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edna
  • Elsie
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Elsie is located in Magoffin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elsie
  • Gordon Ford
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Gordon Ford is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gordon Ford
  • Harper
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Harper is located in Magoffin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harper
  • Index
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Index is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Index
  • Jones Creek
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Jones Creek is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones Creek
  • Panama
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Panama is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panama
  • Right Fork
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Right Fork is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Right Fork
  • Road Fork
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Road Fork is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Road Fork
  • Rockhouse
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Rockhouse is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockhouse
  • Stacy Fork
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Stacy Fork is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stacy Fork
  • Wheel Rim
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Wheel Rim is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheel Rim
  • Wheelrim Fork
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Wheelrim Fork is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheelrim Fork

How Far From Holliday to ...

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

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

  • West Liberty, which is the Seat of Morgan County, lies just to the North Northwest.
  • Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 93 miles [149.7 km]<1> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Holliday to Frankfort, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 343 miles [552 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 20 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,203 miles [9,982.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,919 miles [11,135.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,794 miles [7,715.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Holliday) 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 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 Holliday 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>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 Holliday 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 Holliday. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.8109, Longitude: -83.2230       In this case, the coordinates for Holliday have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.636 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.549 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.716 degrees.