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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 Whitco, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Whitco 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 Whitco:
- 37.119542, -82.851271
- 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 Whitco
- 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 Letcher County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Letcher County
- Since Whitco is near Knott County and also Wise County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Knott County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Wise 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 Whitco
Communities Also Named Whitco ...
We found one communities that are also named Whitco.
Within Kentucky, the name Whitco is unique.
Beyond Kentucky, there is another community also named Whitco in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Tennessee
- Sequatchie 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 Tennessee community of Whitco [Sequatchie County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Whitco ...
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.
- Bellcraft
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Bellcraft is located in Letcher County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellcraft
- Crown
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Crown is located in Letcher County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crown
- Day
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Day is located in Letcher County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Day
- Hot Spot
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Hot Spot is located in Letcher County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Spot
- Hot Spot has also been known as:
- Hotspot
- Ice
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Ice is located in Letcher County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ice
- Jeremiah
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Kingdom Come
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Kingdom Come is located in Letcher County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingdom Come
- Kings Creek
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Kings Creek is located in Letcher County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Creek
- Little Colly
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Little Colly is located in Letcher County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Colly
- Oven Fork
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Oven Fork is located in Letcher County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oven Fork
- Polly
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Polly is located in Letcher County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polly
How Far From Whitco 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 Whitco to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Whitco and extending to:
- Whitesburg, which is the Seat of Letcher County, lies just to the East.
- Frankfort, which is the State Capital of Kentucky, lies 133 miles [214 km]<3> to the northwest (NW). If you could drive a straight line from Whitco 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 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 339 miles [545.6 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 20 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,219 miles [10,008.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,931 miles [11,154.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,807 miles [7,736.1 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 Whitco 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Whitco) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Whitco 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 Whitco. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.1195, Longitude: -82.8513 In this case, the coordinates for Whitco have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.411 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.19 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.762 degrees. |
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