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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 Croydon Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Croydon Park 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 Croydon Park:
- 39.087053, -77.143313
- 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 Croydon Park
- 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 Montgomery County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Montgomery County
- Since Croydon Park is near Fairfax County and also Prince George's County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Fairfax County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Prince George's 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 Croydon Park
Communities Also Named Croydon Park ...
We found one communities that are also named Croydon Park.
Within Maryland, the name Croydon Park is unique.
Beyond Maryland, there is another community also named Croydon Park in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Pennsylvania
- Bucks 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 Pennsylvania community of Croydon Park [Bucks County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Croydon Park ...
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
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Beantown is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beantown
- English Manor
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- English Manor is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for English Manor
- Falls Orchard
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Falls Orchard is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls Orchard
- Fallsgrove
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Fallsgrove is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fallsgrove
- Fox Hills
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Fox Hills is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Hills
- Glen Hills
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Glen Hills is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Hills
- Harmony Hills
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Harmony Hills is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Hills
- Heritage Walk
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Heritage Walk is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heritage Walk
- Hunting Hill
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Hunting Hill is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunting Hill
- Manor Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Manor Park is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manor Park
- Manor Village
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Manor Village is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manor Village
- Randolph Hills
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Randolph Hills is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph Hills
- Continue List (12 more) ...
- Rock Creek Village
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Rock Creek Village is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek Village
- Rockcrest
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Rockcrest is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockcrest
- Rockland
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Rockland is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockland
- Rockville
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Scotland
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Scotland is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotland
- Silver Rock
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Silver Rock is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Rock
- Stoney Brook
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Stoney Brook is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoney Brook
- Sycamore Creek
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Sycamore Creek is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sycamore Creek
- Twin Brook
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Twin Brook is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Brook
- Walnut Hill
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Walnut Hill is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Hill
- Walnut Woods
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Walnut Woods is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Woods
- Winters Run
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Winters Run is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winters Run
How Far From Croydon Park 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 Croydon Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Croydon Park and extending to:
- Rockville, which is the Seat of Montgomery County, lies just to the West.
- Annapolis, which is the State Capital of Maryland, lies 35 miles [56.3 km]<3> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could walk a straight line from Croydon Park to Annapolis, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of 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 14 miles [22.5 km] to the south southeast (SSE). 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 5,894 miles [9,485.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,600 miles [10,621.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,477 miles [7,205 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 Croydon Park 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- Croydon Park) 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 Croydon Park 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 Croydon Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.0871, Longitude: -77.1433 In this case, the coordinates for Croydon Park have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.94 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.526 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.686 degrees. |
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