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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 Carsonville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Carsonville 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 Carsonville:
    • 43.426932, -82.671714
    • 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 Carsonville
  • 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 Sanilac County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Sanilac County
    • Since Carsonville is near Saint Clair County and also Huron County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Saint Clair County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Huron 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 Carsonville

Communities Also Named Carsonville ...

We found six communities that are also named Carsonville.

Within Michigan, the name Carsonville is unique.

Beyond Michigan, we know of six communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these six communities, five are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Georgia
      • Taylor County
      • This Carsonville is located in Taylor County and lies 744 miles [1,197.4 km]<1> to the south of the Carsonville that is located in Sanilac County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Taylor County community of Carsonville.
    • Kansas
      • Labette 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 Kansas community of Carsonville [Labette County].
    • Missouri
      • Saint Louis County
      • This community is historic<3> and although located in Saint Louis County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Louis County community of Carsonville.
    • New Brunswick
      • This Carsonville lies 857 miles [1,379.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Carsonville that is located in Sanilac County.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Dauphin County
      • This Carsonville is located in Dauphin County and lies 364 miles [585.8 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Carsonville that is located in Sanilac County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dauphin County community of Carsonville.
    • Virginia
      • Grayson County
      • This Carsonville is located in Grayson County and lies 473 miles [761.2 km]<1> to the south of the Carsonville that is located in Sanilac County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grayson County community of Carsonville.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Carsonville ...

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 Carsonville to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a village such as Carsonville to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Sandusky, which is the Seat of Sanilac County, lies just to the West.
  • Lansing, which is the State Capital of Michigan, lies 106 miles [170.6 km]<1> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could drive a straight line from Carsonville to Lansing, with an average speed<5>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 428 miles [688.8 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 17 days and walking would take 25 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,925 miles [9,535.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,659 miles [10,716.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,539 miles [7,304.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'

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- Carsonville) 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Carsonville 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>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Carsonville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.
<6>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 Carsonville 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 Carsonville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.4269, Longitude: -82.6717    
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.127 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.803 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.601 degrees.