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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 Poverty, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Poverty 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 Poverty:
    • 37.570879, -87.321111
    • 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 Poverty
  • 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 McLean County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for McLean County
    • Since Poverty is near Hopkins County and also Webster County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Hopkins 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 Poverty

Communities Also Named Poverty ...

We found one communities that are also named Poverty.

Within Kentucky, the name Poverty is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, there is another community also named Poverty in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Virginia
      • Highland 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 Virginia community of Poverty [Highland County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Poverty ...

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.

  • Delaware
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Delaware is located in Daviess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delaware
  • Elba
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Elba is located in McLean County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elba
  • Glenville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Glenville is located in McLean County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenville
  • Handyville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Handyville is located in Daviess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Handyville
  • Jewel City
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jewel City is located in Hopkins County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jewel City
  • Lemon
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Lemon is located in McLean County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemon
  • Panther
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Panther is located in Daviess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panther
  • Poplar Grove
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Poplar Grove is located in McLean County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Grove
  • Rangers Landing
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Rangers Landing is located in McLean County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rangers Landing
  • Steamport Landing
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Steamport Landing is located in Webster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steamport Landing

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Poverty and extending to:

  • Calhoun, which is the Seat of McLean County, lies just to the East Southeast.
  • Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 140 miles [225.3 km]<2> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Poverty to Frankfort, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 564 miles [907.7 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 22 days and walking would take 32 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,378 miles [10,264.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,103 miles [11,431.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,979 miles [8,012.9 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 Poverty 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Poverty) 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 Poverty 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 Poverty. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.5709, Longitude: -87.3211       In this case, the coordinates for Poverty have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.182 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.434 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.582 degrees.