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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 Meadowcrest, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Meadowcrest 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 Meadowcrest:
    • 39.440657, -77.463042
    • 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 Meadowcrest
  • 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 Meadowcrest is near Washington County and also Montgomery County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Washington County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Montgomery 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 Meadowcrest

Communities Also Named Meadowcrest ...

We found one communities that are also named Meadowcrest.

Within Maryland, the name Meadowcrest is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Virginia
      • Washington 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 Virginia community of Meadowcrest [Washington County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Meadowcrest ...

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.

  • Arrowhead
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Arrowhead is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arrowhead
  • Cherry Hill
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Cherry Hill is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Hill
  • Christophers Crossing
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Christophers Crossing is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christophers Crossing
  • Clover Hill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Clover Hill is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clover Hill
  • Cloverdale
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Cloverdale is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
  • Cloverview
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Cloverview is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverview
  • Deer Ridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Deer Ridge is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Ridge
  • Fountain Dale
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Fountain Dale is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountain Dale
  • Golf View
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Golf View is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golf View
  • Grove Hill
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Grove Hill is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grove Hill
  • Hilltop Woods
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Hilltop Woods is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop Woods
  • Howards Retreat
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Howards Retreat is located in Frederick County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howards Retreat
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Indian Springs
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Indian Springs is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Springs
    • Irongate
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Irongate is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irongate
    • Monarch Ridge
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Monarch Ridge is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monarch Ridge
    • Mountain View
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Mountain View is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View
    • Overlook
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Overlook is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overlook
    • Roberts Retreat
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Roberts Retreat is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts Retreat
    • Rocky Springs
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Rocky Springs is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Springs
    • Rosedale
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Rosedale is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosedale
    • Round Hill
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Round Hill is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Hill
    • Shookstown
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Shookstown is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shookstown
    • Spring Valley
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Spring Valley is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Valley
    • Taskers Chance
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Taskers Chance is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taskers Chance
    • Winpenny Tell
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Winpenny Tell is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winpenny Tell
    • Winter Run
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Winter Run is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winter Run
    • Winterborn
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Winterborn is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winterborn
    • Woodlawn Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Woodlawn Village is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlawn Village
    • Yellow Springs
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Yellow Springs is located in Frederick County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow Springs

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

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

  • Frederick, which is the Seat of Frederick County, lies just to the Southeast.
  • Annapolis, which is the State Capital of Maryland, lies 60 miles [96.6 km]<2> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could walk a straight line from Meadowcrest to Annapolis, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 43 miles [69.2 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 about two full days and walking would take about three full 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 6,601 miles [10,623.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,477 miles [7,205 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Meadowcrest 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' (or 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- Meadowcrest) 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 Meadowcrest 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 Meadowcrest. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.4407, Longitude: -77.4630       In this case, the coordinates for Meadowcrest have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.108 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.77 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.686 degrees.