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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 Howards Mill, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Howards Mill 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 Howards Mill:
    • 38.063968, -83.847420
    • 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 Howards Mill
  • 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 Montgomery County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Montgomery County
    • Since Howards Mill is near Bath County and also Lawrence County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Bath County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lawrence 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 Howards Mill

Communities Also Named Howards Mill ...

We found two communities that are also named Howards Mill.

Within Kentucky, the name Howards Mill is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Early County
      • This Howards Mill is located in Early County and lies 481 miles [774.1 km]<1> to the south of the Howards Mill that is located in Montgomery County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Early County community of Howards Mill.
    • New York
      • Wyoming 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 New York community of Howards Mill [Wyoming County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Howards Mill ...

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.

  • Chestnut Grove
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Chestnut Grove is located in Bath County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Grove
  • Hope
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Hope is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hope
  • Little Slate Creek
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Little Slate Creek is located in Bath County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Slate Creek
  • Needmore
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Needmore is located in Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Needmore
  • Peeled Oak
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Peeled Oak is located in Bath County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peeled Oak
  • Rosedale
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Rosedale is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosedale
  • Salt Well
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Salt Well is located in Bath County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salt Well
  • Stepstone
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Stepstone is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stepstone
  • Stoops
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Stoops is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoops
  • Walkers Crossing
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Walkers Crossing is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walkers Crossing

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

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

  • Mount Sterling, which is the Seat of Montgomery County, lies just to the West.
  • Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 56 miles [90.1 km]<1> to the west (W). If you could walk a straight line from Howards Mill to Frankfort, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 372 miles [598.7 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take 6 hours, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 22 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,217 miles [10,005.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,935 miles [11,160.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,810 miles [7,740.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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 from Point A (ie- Howards Mill) 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 Howards Mill 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 Howards Mill 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 Howards Mill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.0640, Longitude: -83.8474       In this case, the coordinates for Howards Mill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.02 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.024 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.913 degrees.