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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 Hunting Creek Farms, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hunting Creek Farms 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 Hunting Creek Farms:
    • 38.580399, -76.594125
    • 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 Hunting Creek Farms
  • 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 Calvert County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Calvert County
    • Since Hunting Creek Farms is near Prince George's County and also Charles 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 Charles 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 Hunting Creek Farms

Communities Also Named Hunting Creek Farms ...

We found one communities that are also named Hunting Creek Farms.

Within Maryland, the name Hunting Creek Farms is unique.

Beyond Maryland, there is another community also named Hunting Creek Farms in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Tennessee
      • Williamson County
      • This Hunting Creek Farms is located in Williamson County and lies 597 miles [960.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Hunting Creek Farms that is located in Calvert County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Williamson County community of Hunting Creek Farms.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Hunting Creek Farms ...

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.

  • Biglanes Choice
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Biglanes Choice is located in Calvert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biglanes Choice
  • Cedar Point
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Cedar Point is located in Calvert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Point
  • Central Village
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Central Village is located in Calvert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central Village
  • Dares ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Dares is located in Calvert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dares
  • Deer Crossing
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Deer Crossing is located in Calvert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Crossing
  • Fiddlers Point
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Fiddlers Point is located in Calvert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fiddlers Point
  • Heather Knolls
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Heather Knolls is located in Calvert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heather Knolls
  • Hunters Ridge
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Hunters Ridge is located in Calvert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters Ridge
  • Hunting Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Hunting Hills is located in Calvert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunting Hills
  • Hunting Lake
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Hunting Lake is located in Calvert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunting Lake
  • Huntingtown
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Line Ridge
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Line Ridge is located in Calvert County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Line Ridge
  • Continue List   (19 more) ...
    • Lord Cecil Woods
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Lord Cecil Woods is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lord Cecil Woods
    • Meadow Oaks
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Meadow Oaks is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Oaks
    • New Enterprise
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • New Enterprise is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Enterprise
    • Peach Blossom Farm
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Peach Blossom Farm is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peach Blossom Farm
    • Prince Frederick
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Quail Ridge
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Quail Ridge is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Ridge
    • Queensberry
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Queensberry is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Queensberry
    • Quiet Meadows
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Quiet Meadows is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quiet Meadows
    • Ravenshead
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Ravenshead is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravenshead
    • Rose Hill
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Rose Hill is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Hill
    • Sandy Bottom
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Sandy Bottom is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Bottom
    • Shady Hill
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Shady Hill is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Hill
    • Sherbert
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Sherbert is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherbert
    • Sunrise
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Sunrise is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise
    • Sunset
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Sunset is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset
    • Tanglewood
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Tanglewood is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tanglewood
    • Tranquility
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Tranquility is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tranquility
    • Turkey Ridge
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Turkey Ridge is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turkey Ridge
    • Wild Goose Landing
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Wild Goose Landing is located in Calvert County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wild Goose Landing

How Far From Hunting Creek Farms to ...

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Hunting Creek Farms and extending to:

  • Prince Frederick, which is the Seat of Calvert County, lies just to the South.
  • Annapolis, which is the State Capital of Maryland, lies 28 miles [45.1 km]<1> to the north (N). If you could walk a straight line from Hunting Creek Farms to Annapolis, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 32 miles [51.5 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take just over a day and walking would take most of two days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,892 miles [9,482.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • 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).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,472 miles [7,197 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hunting Creek Farms) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<4>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 Hunting Creek Farms 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 Hunting Creek Farms. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.5804, Longitude: -76.5941       In this case, the coordinates for Hunting Creek Farms have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.65 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.117 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.652 degrees.