Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Red Creek, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Red Creek and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Red Creek
- 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 Red Creek:
- 37.440626, -82.467956
- 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 Red Creek
- 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 Pike County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Pike County
- Since Red Creek is near Floyd County and also Dickenson County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Floyd County
- eBird sighting report for Dickenson 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Red Creek ...
We found four communities that share the name Red Creek.
Within Kentucky, the name Red Creek is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kansas
- New York
- Suffolk County
- This Red Creek is located in Suffolk County and lies 581 miles [935 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Red Creek that is located in Pike County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Suffolk County community of Red Creek.
- Wayne County
- This Red Creek is located in Wayne County and lies 501 miles [806.3 km] to the northeast of the Red Creek that is located in Pike County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Red Creek.
- West Virginia
Curious and Interesting Names Near Red Creek ...
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.
- Crooked Creek
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crooked Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crooked Creek
- Crooked Creek is located in Pike County
- Daniels Creek
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Daniels Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daniels Creek
- Daniels Creek is located in Pike County
- Fishtrap
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east) - Fords Branch
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fords Branch have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fords Branch
- Fords Branch is located in Pike County
- Garden Village
(Less than 2 miles to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Garden Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden Village
- Garden Village is located in Pike County
- Greasy Creek
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greasy Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greasy Creek
- Greasy Creek is located in Pike County
- Hurricane Branch
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hurricane Branch have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurricane Branch
- Hurricane Branch is located in Pike County
- Justiceville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Justiceville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Justiceville
- Justiceville is located in Pike County
- Liberty
(Less than 2 miles to the south) - Lower Chloe
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lower Chloe have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Chloe
- Lower Chloe is located in Pike County
- Lower Greasy Creek
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lower Greasy Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Greasy Creek
- Lower Greasy Creek is located in Pike County
- Mayo Village
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mayo Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayo Village
- Mayo Village is located in Pike County
- Continue List (4 more) ...
- Pigeon
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west) - Pikeville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pikeville
- Pikeville is located in Pike County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,432 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pikeville <4>
- Raccoon
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast) - Titan Siding
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Titan Siding have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Titan Siding
- Titan Siding is located in Pike County
- Pigeon
How Far From Red Creek 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 Red Creek to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Red Creek and extending to:
- Pikeville, which is the Seat of Pike County, lies just to the Northwest.
- Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 141 miles [226.9 km]<2> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Red Creek to Frankfort, with an average speed<5>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 311 miles [500.5 km] to the east northeast (ENE). 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 6,189 miles [9,960.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,901 miles [11,106.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,777 miles [7,687.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Red Creek. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for State of Kentucky: https://kentucky.gov/
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 Red Creek 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Red Creek) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Red Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.4406, Longitude: -82.4680 In this case, the coordinates for Red Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Red Creek 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 311.179 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.971 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.504 degrees. |