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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 Point-of-View, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Point-of-View 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 Point-of-View:
    • 38.580398, -76.273280
    • 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 Point-of-View
  • 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 Dorchester County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Dorchester County
    • Since Point-of-View is near Talbot County and also Calvert County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Talbot County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Calvert 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 Point-of-View

Communities Also Named Point-of-View ...

We found one communities that are also named Point-of-View.

Within Maryland, the name Point-of-View is unique.

Beyond Maryland, there is another community also named Point-of-View 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 Point-of-View [Virginia Beach City].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Point-of-View ...

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.

  • Castle Haven
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Castle Haven is located in Dorchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Haven
  • Cornersville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Cornersville is located in Dorchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornersville
  • Green Cove
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Green Cove is located in Dorchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Cove
  • Hills Point
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Hills Point is located in Dorchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hills Point
  • James
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • James is located in Dorchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James
  • Lloyds
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Lloyds is located in Dorchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lloyds
  • Paw Paw Point
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Paw Paw Point is located in Dorchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paw Paw Point
  • Ripling Waters
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Ripling Waters is located in Dorchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ripling Waters
  • Seabreeze
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Seabreeze is located in Dorchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seabreeze
  • Seaview
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Seaview is located in Dorchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seaview

How Far From Point-of-View 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 Point-of-View to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Cambridge, which is the Seat of Dorchester County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> to the east. If you could walk a straight line from Point-of-View to Cambridge, with an average speed<3> 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 29 miles [46.7 km] to the north northwest (NNW). The buggy would take just over a day and walking would take just about two full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 46 miles [74 km] to the west northwest (WNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take most of two 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 5,878 miles [9,459.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,580 miles [10,589.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,458 miles [7,174.5 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 Point-of-View 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Point-of-View) 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 Point-of-View 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 Point-of-View. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.5804, Longitude: -76.2733       In this case, the coordinates for Point-of-View have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.462 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.904 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 304.519 degrees.