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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 Bennsville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Bennsville 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 Bennsville:
- 38.609285, -77.012197
- 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 Bennsville
- 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 Charles County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Charles County
- Since Bennsville is near Prince George's County and also Fairfax County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Prince George's County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Fairfax 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 Bennsville
Communities Also Named Bennsville ...
We found one communities that are also named Bennsville.
Within Maryland, the name Bennsville is unique.
Beyond Maryland, there is another community also named Bennsville in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Ontario
- 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 Ontario community of Bennsville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Bennsville ...
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.
- Beantown
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Beantown is located in Charles County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beantown
- Bolton
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Bolton is located in Charles County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolton
- Bryans Road
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Camelot
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Camelot is located in Charles County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camelot
- Countryside
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Countryside is located in Charles County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Countryside
- Deerwood
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Deerwood is located in Charles County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerwood
- Forest Grove
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Forest Grove is located in Charles County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Grove
- Freedom Village
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Freedom Village is located in Charles County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedom Village
- Hunters Ridge
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Hunters Ridge is located in Charles County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters Ridge
- Lyons Corner
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Lyons Corner is located in Charles County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyons Corner
- Pheasant Farm
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Pheasant Farm is located in Charles County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pheasant Farm
- Pomfret
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (4 more) ...
- Pomonkey
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Pomonkey is located in Charles County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pomonkey
- Rosewick
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Rosewick is located in Charles County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosewick
- Spring Valley
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Spring Valley is located in Charles County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Valley
- Turkey Hill
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Turkey Hill is located in Charles County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkey Hill
How Far From Bennsville to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Bennsville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Bennsville and extending to:
- La Plata, which is the Seat of Charles County, lies just to the South Southeast.
- Annapolis, which is the State Capital of Maryland, lies 37 miles [59.5 km]<3> to the northeast (NE). If you could walk a straight line from Bennsville to Annapolis, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take over two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 19 miles [30.6 km] to the north (N). The buggy would take 6 hours and walking would take just over a day.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,909 miles [9,509.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,612 miles [10,641 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,490 miles [7,226 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 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 Bennsville 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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bennsville) 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 Bennsville 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 Bennsville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.6093, Longitude: -77.0122 In this case, the coordinates for Bennsville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.893 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.398 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.814 degrees. |
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