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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 Flintridge, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Flintridge 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 Flintridge:
    • 39.223717, -77.070535
    • 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 Flintridge
  • 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 Flintridge is near Howard County and also Carroll County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Howard County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Carroll 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 Flintridge

Communities Also Named Flintridge ...

We found one communities that are also named Flintridge.

Within Maryland, the name Flintridge is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Los Angeles 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 California community of Flintridge [Los Angeles County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Flintridge ...

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.

  • Bootjack
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Bootjack is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bootjack
  • Cabin Hill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Cabin Hill is located in Howard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cabin Hill
  • Camelback Village
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Camelback Village is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camelback Village
  • Cherry Valley
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Cherry Valley is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Valley
  • Cherrywood
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Cherrywood is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherrywood
  • Claysville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Claysville is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claysville
  • Countryside
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Countryside is located in Howard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Countryside
  • Daisy
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Daisy is located in Howard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daisy
  • Daisy Woods
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Daisy Woods is located in Howard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daisy Woods
  • Dill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Dill is located in Howard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dill
  • Edinburgh
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Edinburgh is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edinburgh
  • Florence Farms
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Florence Farms is located in Howard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence Farms
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Gary
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Gary is located in Howard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gary
    • Gold Mine Crossing
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Gold Mine Crossing is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Mine Crossing
    • Green Meadows
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Green Meadows is located in Howard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Meadows
    • Hickory Grove
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Hickory Grove is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Grove
    • Holiday Hills
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Holiday Hills is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Hills
    • Jaycox
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Jaycox is located in Howard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jaycox
    • Manor Oaks
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Manor Oaks is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manor Oaks
    • Millys Delight
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Millys Delight is located in Howard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millys Delight
    • Quail Hill
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Quail Hill is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Hill
    • Rocky Road Park
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Rocky Road Park is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Road Park
    • Rolling Knolls
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Rolling Knolls is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Knolls
    • Sandy Spring
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Sunshine
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Sunshine is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine
    • Twelve Hills
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Twelve Hills is located in Howard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twelve Hills
    • Unity
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Unity is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unity

How Far From Flintridge 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 Flintridge to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Rockville, which is the Seat of Montgomery County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> to the south southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Flintridge to Rockville, 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 35 miles [56.3 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take just about two full days and walking would take most of two days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 22 miles [35.4 km] to the south (S). The buggy would take most of a day 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 5,885 miles [9,471 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,592 miles [10,608.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,468 miles [7,190.5 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 Flintridge 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- Flintridge) 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 Flintridge 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 Flintridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.2237, Longitude: -77.0705       In this case, the coordinates for Flintridge have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.888 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.488 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.602 degrees.