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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 Lloyd, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Lloyd 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 Lloyd:
    • 38.620078, -82.864614
    • 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.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Lloyd
  • 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:
    • Waymark.com

Communities Also Named Lloyd ...

We found twelve communities that share the name Lloyd.

Within Kentucky, the name Lloyd is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, we know of another twelve communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Ashley County
      • This Lloyd is located in Ashley County and lies 606 miles [975.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Lloyd that is located in Greenup County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ashley County community of Lloyd.
    • Florida
      • Jefferson County
      • This Lloyd is located in Jefferson County and lies 565 miles [909.3 km]<1> to the south of the Lloyd that is located in Greenup County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Lloyd.
    • Georgia
      • Dooly 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 Georgia community of Lloyd [Dooly County].
    • Montana
      • Blaine County
      • This Lloyd is located in Blaine County and lies 1,476 miles [2,375.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Lloyd that is located in Greenup County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Blaine County community of Lloyd.
      • Chouteau 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 Montana community of Lloyd [Chouteau County].
      • Deer Lodge 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 Montana community of Lloyd [Deer Lodge County].
    • Nebraska
      • Knox 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 Nebraska community of Lloyd [Knox County].
    • New York
      • Ulster County
      • This Lloyd is located in Ulster County and lies 514 miles [827.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Lloyd that is located in Greenup County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ulster County community of Lloyd.
    • Ohio
      • Portage County
      • This Lloyd is located in Portage County and lies 195 miles [313.8 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Lloyd that is located in Greenup County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Portage County community of Lloyd.
    • Ontario
      • This Lloyd lies 562 miles [904.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Lloyd that is located in Greenup County.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Tioga 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 Pennsylvania community of Lloyd [Tioga County].
    • Texas
      • Denton 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 Texas community of Lloyd [Denton County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Lloyd ...

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.

  • Franklin Furnace
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Franklin Furnace have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklin Furnace
    • Franklin Furnace is located in Scioto County (OH)
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Franklin Furnace <4>
  • Garden City
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Garden City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden City
    • Garden City is located in Scioto County (OH)
  • Grays Branch
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grays Branch have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grays Branch
    • Grays Branch is located in Greenup County
  • Greenup
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Junior Furnace
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Junior Furnace have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Junior Furnace
    • Junior Furnace is located in Scioto County (OH)
  • Limeville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Limeville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limeville
    • Limeville is located in Greenup County
  • Lynn
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynn
    • Lynn is located in Greenup County
  • Ohio Furnace
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ohio Furnace have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ohio Furnace
    • Ohio Furnace is located in Scioto County (OH)
  • Oliver Station
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oliver Station have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oliver Station
    • Oliver Station is located in Greenup County
  • Sand Hill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sand Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Hill
    • Sand Hill is located in Scioto County (OH)

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

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

  • Greenup, which is the Seat of Greenup County, lies just to the South Southeast.
  • Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 112 miles [180.2 km]<1> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could drive a straight line from Lloyd to Frankfort, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 314 miles [505.3 km] to the east (E). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 18 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,151 miles [9,899.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,869 miles [11,054.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,745 miles [7,636.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Lloyd. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Kentucky: https://kentucky.gov/

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Lloyd) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lloyd. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.6201, Longitude: -82.8646       In this case, the coordinates for Lloyd have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Lloyd 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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.
<6>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 Lloyd to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.411 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.409 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.315 degrees.









 

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