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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 Thoroughbred Acres, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Thoroughbred Acres 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 Thoroughbred Acres:
    • 38.081744, -84.454938
    • 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 Thoroughbred Acres
  • 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 Fayette County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Fayette County
    • Since Thoroughbred Acres is near Scott County and also Bourbon County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Scott County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Bourbon 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 Thoroughbred Acres

Communities Also Named Thoroughbred Acres ...

We found one communities that are also named Thoroughbred Acres.

There is one other community in Kentucky that is also named Thoroughbred Acres.

Beyond Kentucky.

  • Communities Located In Kentucky ...
    • Jefferson 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 Kentucky community of Thoroughbred Acres [Jefferson County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Thoroughbred Acres ...

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.

  • Chevy Chase
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Chevy Chase is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chevy Chase
  • Columbus
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Columbus is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus
  • Deep Springs
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Deep Springs is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Springs
  • Elkhorn Parks
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Elkhorn Parks is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn Parks
  • Fairway
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Fairway is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairway
  • Gardenside
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Gardenside is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardenside
  • Hermitage Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Hermitage Hills is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hermitage Hills
  • Holiday Hills
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Holiday Hills is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Hills
  • Idle Hour
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Idle Hour is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idle Hour
  • Liberty Heights
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Liberty Heights is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Heights
  • Pine Meadows
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Pine Meadows is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Meadows
  • Rockwood
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Rockwood is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockwood
  • Sandersville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Sandersville is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandersville
  • Shadeland
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Shadeland is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shadeland

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

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

  • Lexington, which is the Seat of Fayette County, lies just to the Southwest.
  • Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 24 miles [38.6 km]<2> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could walk a straight line from Thoroughbred Acres to Frankfort, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 404 miles [650.2 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 16 days and walking would take 23 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,240 miles [10,042.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,960 miles [11,201 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,835 miles [7,781.2 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 Thoroughbred Acres 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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Thoroughbred Acres) 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 Thoroughbred Acres 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 Thoroughbred Acres. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.0817, Longitude: -84.4549       In this case, the coordinates for Thoroughbred Acres have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.396 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.457 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.175 degrees.