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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 King Mills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to King Mills 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 King Mills:
- 37.736709, -87.752241
- 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 King Mills
- 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 Union County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Union County
- Since King Mills is near Henderson County and also Webster County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Henderson County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Webster 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 King Mills
Communities Also Named King Mills ...
We found one communities that are also named King Mills.
Within Kentucky, the name King Mills is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, there is another community also named King Mills in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Sharp 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 Arkansas community of King Mills [Sharp County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near King Mills ...
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.
- Boxville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Boxville is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boxville
- Cairo
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Cairo is located in Henderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cairo
- Dixie
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Dixie is located in Henderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie
- Geneva
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Geneva is located in Henderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geneva
- Givens
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Givens is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Givens
- Rock Springs
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Rock Springs is located in Henderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Springs
- Tunnel Hill
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Tunnel Hill is located in Henderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunnel Hill
- Uniontown
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Uniontown is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uniontown
- Population from the 2020 Census: 930 people
How Far From King Mills to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as King Mills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in King Mills and extending to:
- Morganfield, which is the Seat of Union County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the west southwest. If you could walk a straight line from King Mills to Morganfield, 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 159 miles [255.9 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 7 days and walking would take 9 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 585 miles [941.5 km] to the east (E). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 23 days and walking would take 34 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,387 miles [10,278.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,114 miles [11,448.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,990 miles [8,030.6 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 King Mills 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 from Point A (ie- King Mills) 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 King Mills 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 King Mills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.7367, Longitude: -87.7522 In this case, the coordinates for King Mills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.461 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.777 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.734 degrees. |
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