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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 Land of Promise, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Land of Promise 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 Land of Promise:
    • 39.338993, -77.297484
    • 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 Land of Promise
  • 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 Frederick County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Frederick County
    • Since Land of Promise is near Montgomery County and also Carroll 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 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 Land of Promise

Communities Also Named Land of Promise ...

We found one communities that are also named Land of Promise.

Within Maryland, the name Land of Promise is unique.

Beyond Maryland, there is another community also named Land of Promise in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Virginia
      • Virginia Beach City
      • 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 Virginia community of Land of Promise [Virginia Beach City].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Land of Promise ...

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.

  • Big Woods Estates
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Big Woods Estates is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Woods Estates
  • Dennis ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Dennis is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dennis
  • Englandtowne
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Englandtowne is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Englandtowne
  • Fountain Mills
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Fountain Mills is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountain Mills
  • Friendship
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Friendship is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
  • Gently Savage
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Gently Savage is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gently Savage
  • Green Hills
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Green Hills is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Hills
  • Green Valley
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Green Valley is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Valley
  • Hartman
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Hartman is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartman
  • Hickory Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Hickory Hill is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Hill
  • Highview
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Highview is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highview
  • Honey Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Honey Hill is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Honey Hill
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Hoot'N Hollow
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Hoot'N Hollow is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoot'N Hollow
    • Hunting Hills
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Hunting Hills is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunting Hills
    • Martin
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Martin is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin
    • Meadowbrook
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Meadowbrook is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowbrook
    • Pleasant Grove
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Pleasant Grove is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Grove
    • Quail Run
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Quail Run is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Run
    • Rangers Woods
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Rangers Woods is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rangers Woods
    • Riverwood
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Riverwood is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverwood
    • Rolling Green
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Rolling Green is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Green
    • Stonelake
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Stonelake is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonelake
    • Sugarloaf Overlook
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Sugarloaf Overlook is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugarloaf Overlook
    • Sugarloaf Vista
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Sugarloaf Vista is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugarloaf Vista
    • Sunnybrook Farms
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Sunnybrook Farms is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnybrook Farms
    • Tranquility
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Tranquility is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tranquility
    • Wolf Den Spring
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Wolf Den Spring is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolf Den Spring

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Land of Promise and extending to:

  • Frederick, which is the Seat of Frederick County, lies just to the Northwest.
  • Annapolis, which is the State Capital of Maryland, lies 49 miles [78.9 km]<2> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could walk a straight line from Land of Promise to Annapolis, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take about three full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of two days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 33 miles [53.1 km] to the south southeast (SSE). 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 5,890 miles [9,479 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,597 miles [10,616.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,474 miles [7,200.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 Land of Promise 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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Land of Promise) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Land of Promise 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 Land of Promise. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.3390, Longitude: -77.2975       In this case, the coordinates for Land of Promise have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.016 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.65 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.654 degrees.