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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 Sutherland, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Sutherland and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Sutherland:
    • 37.670048, -87.121108
    • 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 Sutherland
  • 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 Daviess County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Daviess County
    • Since Sutherland is near McLean County and also Ohio County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for McLean County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Ohio 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 Sutherland

Communities Also Named Sutherland ...

We found sixteen communities that are also named Sutherland.

Within Kentucky, the name Sutherland is unique.

Beyond Kentucky, we know of sixteen communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these sixteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Hillsborough 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 Florida community of Sutherland [Hillsborough County].
    • Iowa
      • O'Brien County
      • This Sutherland is located in O'Brien County and lies 572 miles [920.5 km]<2> to the northwest of the Sutherland that is located in Daviess County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the O'Brien County community of Sutherland.
    • Missouri
      • Johnson County
      • This Sutherland is located in Johnson County and lies 357 miles [574.5 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Sutherland that is located in Daviess County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Johnson County community of Sutherland.
    • Montana
      • Prairie County
      • This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Montana community of Sutherland [Prairie County].
    • Nebraska
      • Lincoln County
      • This Sutherland is located in Lincoln County and lies 783 miles [1,260.1 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Sutherland that is located in Daviess County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of Sutherland.
    • North Carolina
      • Ashe County
      • This Sutherland is located in Ashe County and lies 311 miles [500.5 km]<2> to the east southeast of the Sutherland that is located in Daviess County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ashe County community of Sutherland.
    • Ohio
      • Trumbull County
      • This community is historic<3> and although located in Trumbull County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Trumbull County community of Sutherland.
    • Ontario
      • This Sutherland lies 384 miles [618 km]<2> to the north northeast of the Sutherland that is located in Daviess County.
    • Saskatchewan
      • This Sutherland lies 1,371 miles [2,206.4 km]<2> to the northwest of the Sutherland that is located in Daviess County.
    • Tennessee
      • Johnson County
      • This Sutherland is located in Johnson County and lies 301 miles [484.4 km]<2> to the east southeast of the Sutherland that is located in Daviess County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Johnson County community of Sutherland.
    • Utah
      • Millard County
      • This Sutherland is located in Millard County and lies 1,378 miles [2,217.7 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Sutherland that is located in Daviess County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Millard County community of Sutherland.
    • Virginia
      • Dinwiddie County
      • This Sutherland is located in Dinwiddie County and lies 525 miles [844.9 km]<2> to the east of the Sutherland that is located in Daviess County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dinwiddie County community of Sutherland.
      • Wise County
      • This Sutherland is located in Wise County and lies 250 miles [402.3 km] to the east of the Sutherland that is located in Daviess County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wise County community of Sutherland.
      • Wythe County
      • This Sutherland is located in Wythe County and lies 330 miles [531.1 km] to the east of the Sutherland that is located in Daviess County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wythe County community of Sutherland.
    • West Virginia
      • Preston County
      • This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Sutherland [Preston County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Bayfield County
      • This Sutherland is located in Bayfield County and lies 639 miles [1,028.4 km]<2> to the north northwest of the Sutherland that is located in Daviess County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bayfield County community of Sutherland.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Sutherland ...

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.

  • Glenville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Glenville is located in McLean County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenville
  • Habit
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Habit is located in Daviess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Habit
  • Handyville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Handyville is located in Daviess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Handyville
  • Maxwell
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Maxwell is located in Daviess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxwell
  • Panther
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Panther is located in Daviess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panther
  • Pleasant Ridge
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Pleasant Ridge is located in Ohio County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Ridge
  • Red Hill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Red Hill is located in Daviess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Hill
  • Tuck
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Tuck is located in Daviess County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuck

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

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

  • Owensboro, which is the Seat of Daviess County, lies just to the North.
  • Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 127 miles [204.4 km]<2> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Sutherland to Frankfort, with an average speed<4>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 5 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 552 miles [888.4 km] to the east (E). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 22 days and walking would take 32 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,366 miles [10,245.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,090 miles [11,410.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,966 miles [7,992 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Sutherland 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- Sutherland) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Sutherland, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Sutherland 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 Sutherland. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.6700, Longitude: -87.1211       In this case, the coordinates for Sutherland have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.058 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 310.305 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.467 degrees.