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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 Allenville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Allenville 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 Allenville:
    • 45.984631, -84.821051
    • 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 Allenville
  • 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 Mackinac County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Mackinac County
    • Since Allenville is near Chippewa County and also Emmet County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Chippewa County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Emmet 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 Allenville

Communities Also Named Allenville ...

We found nine communities that are also named Allenville.

Within Michigan, the name Allenville is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of nine communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alabama
      • Hale County
      • This Allenville is located in Hale County and lies 943 miles [1,517.6 km]<1> to the south of the Allenville that is located in Mackinac County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hale County community of Allenville.
      • Marengo 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 Alabama community of Allenville [Marengo County].
      • Mobile County
      • This Allenville is located in Mobile County and lies 1,069 miles [1,720.4 km] to the south of the Allenville that is located in Mackinac County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mobile County community of Allenville.
    • Arizona
      • Maricopa County
      • This Allenville is located in Maricopa County and lies 1,701 miles [2,737.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Allenville that is located in Mackinac County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Maricopa County community of Allenville.
    • Georgia
      • Berrien County
      • This Allenville is located in Berrien County and lies 1,029 miles [1,656 km]<1> to the south of the Allenville that is located in Mackinac County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Berrien County community of Allenville.
    • Illinois
      • Moultrie County
      • This Allenville is located in Moultrie County and lies 481 miles [774.1 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Allenville that is located in Mackinac County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Moultrie County community of Allenville.
    • Maryland
      • Anne Arundel County
      • This Allenville is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 637 miles [1,025.2 km]<1> to the southeast of the Allenville that is located in Mackinac County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Allenville.
    • Missouri
      • Cape Girardeau County
      • This Allenville is located in Cape Girardeau County and lies 656 miles [1,055.7 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Allenville that is located in Mackinac County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cape Girardeau County community of Allenville.
    • Wisconsin
      • Winnebago County
      • This Allenville is located in Winnebago County and lies 225 miles [362.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Allenville that is located in Mackinac County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Winnebago County community of Allenville.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Allenville ...

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.

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

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

  • Saint Ignace, which is the Seat of Mackinac County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Allenville to Saint Ignace, with an average speed<4> 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.
  • Lansing, which is the State Capital of Michigan, lies 224 miles [360.5 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 13 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 629 miles [1,012.3 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving would take just over a day, a buggy would take 25 days and walking would take 36 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,886 miles [9,472.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,630 miles [10,670 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,522 miles [7,277.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Allenville) 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 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 Allenville 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>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 Allenville 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 Allenville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.9846, Longitude: -84.8211    
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.411 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 309.638 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.768 degrees.