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 Lincolnshire:
38.223681, -85.621614
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 Lincolnshire
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 Jefferson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found nine communities that are also named Lincolnshire.
Within Kentucky, the name Lincolnshire is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of nine communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Illinois
Lake County
This Lincolnshire is located in Lake County and lies 299 miles [481.2 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Lincolnshire that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lake County community of Lincolnshire.
Will County
This Lincolnshire is located in Will County and lies 247 miles [397.5 km] to the north northwest of the Lincolnshire that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Will County community of Lincolnshire.
Indiana
Allen County
This Lincolnshire is located in Allen County and lies 195 miles [313.8 km]<1> to the north of the Lincolnshire that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allen County community of Lincolnshire.
Elkhart 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 Indiana community of Lincolnshire [Elkhart County].
Grant County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Lincolnshire [Grant County].
Vigo County
We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Lincolnshire [Vigo County].
Ohio
Erie County
This Lincolnshire is located in Erie County and lies 269 miles [432.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Lincolnshire that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Erie County community of Lincolnshire.
South Carolina
Richland County
This Lincolnshire is located in Richland County and lies 383 miles [616.4 km]<1> to the southeast of the Lincolnshire that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richland County community of Lincolnshire.
West Virginia
Wood County
This Lincolnshire is located in Wood County and lies 230 miles [370.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Lincolnshire that is located in Jefferson County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wood County community of Lincolnshire.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Lincolnshire ...
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.
Cherokee Garden (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
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 city such as Lincolnshire to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Lincolnshire and extending to:
Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could walk a straight line from Lincolnshire to Frankfort, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take over two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 465 miles [748.3 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 19 days and walking would take 27 days.
The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,280 miles [10,106.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,003 miles [11,270.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,879 miles [7,852 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 from Point A (ie- Lincolnshire) 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 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 Lincolnshire 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>
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.
<5>
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 Lincolnshire 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 Lincolnshire. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.2237, Longitude: -85.6216 In this case, the coordinates for Lincolnshire have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 313.125 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.312 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.652 degrees.