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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 Buck Lodge, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Buck Lodge 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 Buck Lodge:
- 39.008443, -76.962753
- 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 Buck Lodge
- 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 Prince George's County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Prince George's County
- Since Buck Lodge is near Montgomery County and also Howard County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Montgomery County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Howard 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 Buck Lodge
Communities Also Named Buck Lodge ...
We found one communities that are also named Buck Lodge.
Within Maryland, the name Buck Lodge is unique.
Beyond Maryland, there is another community also named Buck Lodge in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Tennessee
- Sumner 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 Buck Lodge [Sumner County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Buck Lodge ...
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.
- Beltsville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Boxwood Village
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Boxwood Village is located in Prince George's County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boxwood Village
- Branchville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Branchville is located in Prince George's County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Branchville
- Burnt Mills
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Burnt Mills is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnt Mills
- Burnt Mills Village
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Burnt Mills Village is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnt Mills Village
- Cherry Hill
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Cherry Hill is located in Prince George's County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Hill
- Chestnut Hills
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Chestnut Hills is located in Prince George's County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Hills
- College Park
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Cresthaven
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Cresthaven is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cresthaven
- Daniels Park
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Daniels Park is located in Prince George's County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daniels Park
- Eleven Cedars
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Eleven Cedars is located in Prince George's County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eleven Cedars
- Fairway
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Fairway is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairway
- Continue List (23 more) ...
- Four Corners
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Four Corners is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Corners
- Green Meadows
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Green Meadows is located in Prince George's County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Meadows
- Highland View
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Highland View is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland View
- Hillandale
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Hillandale is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillandale
- Hillandale Forest
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Hillandale Forest is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillandale Forest
- Hillandale Heights
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Hillandale Heights is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillandale Heights
- Indian Spring Village
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Indian Spring Village is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Spring Village
- Lewisdale
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Lewisdale is located in Prince George's County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewisdale
- Michigan Park Hills
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Michigan Park Hills is located in Prince George's County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Michigan Park Hills
- Orchard View
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Orchard View is located in Prince George's County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchard View
- Quaint Acres
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Quaint Acres is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quaint Acres
- Queenstown
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Queenstown is located in Prince George's County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Queenstown
- Rocky Brook Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Rocky Brook Park is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Brook Park
- Rosedale Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Rosedale Park is located in Prince George's County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosedale Park
- Seven Oaks
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Seven Oaks is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Oaks
- Silver Spring
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Silver Spring Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Silver Spring Park is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Spring Park
- Springbrook
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Springbrook is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springbrook
- Sunnyside
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Sunnyside is located in Prince George's County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnyside
- University Gardens
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- University Gardens is located in Prince George's County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for University Gardens
- University Park
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- University Park is located in Prince George's County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for University Park
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,628 people
- Woodside Forest
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Woodside Forest is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodside Forest
- Woodside Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Woodside Park is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodside Park
How Far From Buck Lodge 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 Buck Lodge to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Buck Lodge and extending to:
- Upper Marlboro, which is the Seat of Prince George's County, lies 17 miles [27.4 km]<3> to the southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Buck Lodge to Upper Marlboro, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take five to six hours.
- Annapolis, which is the State Capital of Maryland, lies 25 miles [40.2 km] to the east (E). The buggy would take most of a day and walking would take just about two full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is just to the south southwest (SSW).
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,890 miles [9,479 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,595 miles [10,613.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,472 miles [7,197 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Buck Lodge 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Buck Lodge) 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 Buck Lodge 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 Buck Lodge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.0084, Longitude: -76.9628 In this case, the coordinates for Buck Lodge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.839 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.398 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.64 degrees. |
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