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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 Collington, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Collington 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 Collington:
    • 38.969612, -76.759691
    • 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 Collington
  • 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 Collington is near Anne Arundel County and also Howard County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Anne Arundel 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 Collington

Communities Also Named Collington ...

We found one communities that are also named Collington.

Within Maryland, the name Collington is unique.

Beyond Maryland, there is another community also named Collington in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • North Carolina
      • Dare 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 North Carolina community of Collington [Dare County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Collington ...

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.

  • Bell
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Bell is located in Prince George's County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell
  • Bowie
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Charing Cross
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Charing Cross is located in Anne Arundel County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charing Cross
  • Good Luck ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Good Luck is located in Prince George's County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Luck
  • Hall
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Hall is located in Prince George's County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hall
  • Heather Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Heather Hills is located in Prince George's County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heather Hills
  • Hermitage Hill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Hermitage Hill is located in Anne Arundel County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hermitage Hill
  • Idlewild
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Idlewild is located in Prince George's County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idlewild
  • Lake Arbor
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Lake Arbor is located in Prince George's County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Arbor
  • Lincoln
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Lincoln is located in Prince George's County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln
  • Pigeon House Corner
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Pigeon House Corner is located in Anne Arundel County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pigeon House Corner
  • Queen Anne Knolls
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Queen Anne Knolls is located in Prince George's County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Queen Anne Knolls
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Riverwood
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Riverwood is located in Anne Arundel County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverwood
    • Rolling View
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Rolling View is located in Prince George's County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling View
    • Royale Gardens
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Royale Gardens is located in Prince George's County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royale Gardens
    • Saddle Ridge
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Saddle Ridge is located in Anne Arundel County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saddle Ridge
    • Stonegate Village
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Stonegate Village is located in Anne Arundel County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonegate Village
    • Vista Raceway
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Vista Raceway is located in Prince George's County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vista Raceway

How Far From Collington to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Collington to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Collington and extending to:

  • Upper Marlboro, which is the Seat of Prince George's County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> to the south. If you could walk a straight line from Collington to Upper Marlboro, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
  • Annapolis, which is the State Capital of Maryland, lies 14 miles [22.5 km] to the east (E). The buggy would take four to five hours and walking would take most of a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 15 miles [24.1 km] to the west southwest (WSW). The buggy would take four to five hours and walking would take most of a day.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,883 miles [9,467.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,587 miles [10,600.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,464 miles [7,184.1 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 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 Collington 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 from Point A (ie- Collington) 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 Collington 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 Collington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.9696, Longitude: -76.7597       In this case, the coordinates for Collington have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.721 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.259 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.57 degrees.