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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 Osborne, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Osborne 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 Osborne:
    • 39.536779, -76.117174
    • 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 Osborne
  • 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 Harford County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Harford County
    • Since Osborne is near Cecil County and also Kent County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cecil County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Kent 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 Osborne

Communities Also Named Osborne ...

We found ten communities that are also named Osborne.

Within Maryland, the name Osborne is unique.

Beyond Maryland, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these ten communities, eight are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Shasta County
      • This Osborne is located in Shasta County and lies 2,397 miles [3,857.6 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Osborne that is located in Harford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Shasta County community of Osborne.
    • Iowa
      • Clayton County
      • This Osborne is located in Clayton County and lies 826 miles [1,329.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Osborne that is located in Harford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clayton County community of Osborne.
    • Kansas
      • Osborne County
      • This Osborne is located in Osborne County and lies 1,200 miles [1,931.2 km]<1> to the west of the Osborne that is located in Harford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Osborne County community of Osborne.
    • Manitoba
      • This Osborne lies 1,246 miles [2,005.2 km]<1> to the northwest of the Osborne that is located in Harford County.
    • North Carolina
      • Richmond County
      • This Osborne is located in Richmond County and lies 383 miles [616.4 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Osborne that is located in Harford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Richmond County community of Osborne.
    • Ontario
      • This Osborne lies 394 miles [634.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Osborne that is located in Harford County.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Allegheny County
      • This Osborne is located in Allegheny County and lies 224 miles [360.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Osborne that is located in Harford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allegheny County community of Osborne.
    • Texas
      • Wilbarger County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Osborne [Wilbarger County].
    • Washington
      • Grant County
      • This Osborne is located in Grant County and lies 2,189 miles [3,522.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Osborne that is located in Harford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grant County community of Osborne.
    • West Virginia
      • Kanawha County
      • This Osborne is located in Kanawha County and lies 289 miles [465.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Osborne that is located in Harford County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kanawha County community of Osborne.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Osborne ...

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.

  • Chapel Hills
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Chapel Hills is located in Harford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel Hills
  • Craigtown
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Craigtown is located in Cecil County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craigtown
  • Foxridge
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Foxridge is located in Harford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxridge
  • Frenchtown
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Frenchtown is located in Cecil County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frenchtown
  • Grace Harbour
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Grace Harbour is located in Harford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grace Harbour
  • Green Valley
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Green Valley is located in Harford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Valley
  • Hill Land
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Hill Land is located in Harford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill Land
  • Hillside
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Hillside is located in Harford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside
  • Holly Haven
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Holly Haven is located in Harford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly Haven
  • Meadowbrook
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Meadowbrook is located in Harford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowbrook
  • Meadowvale
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Meadowvale is located in Harford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowvale
  • Paradise Heights
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Paradise Heights is located in Harford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Heights
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Perry Point
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Perry Point is located in Cecil County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perry Point
    • Poplar Point
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Poplar Point is located in Cecil County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Point
    • Quaker Hills
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Quaker Hills is located in Harford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quaker Hills
    • Swan Creek
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Swan Creek is located in Harford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swan Creek
    • Swan Meadows
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Swan Meadows is located in Harford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swan Meadows

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

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

  • Bel Air, which is the Seat of Harford County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the west. If you could walk a straight line from Osborne to Bel Air, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
  • Annapolis, which is the State Capital of Maryland, lies 43 miles [69.2 km] to the south southwest (SSW). 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 White House (Washington, DC) is 66 miles [106.2 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take less than two hours, a buggy would take about three full days and walking would take three full days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,832 miles [9,385.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,537 miles [10,520.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,414 miles [7,103.6 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- Osborne) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 Osborne 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.
<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 Osborne 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 Osborne. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.5368, Longitude: -76.1172       In this case, the coordinates for Osborne have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.302 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.87 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.073 degrees.