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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 Five Points North, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Five Points North 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 Five Points North:
- 43.073638, -84.167472
- 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 Five Points North
- 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 Shiawassee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Shiawassee County
- Since Five Points North is near Saginaw County and also Clinton County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Saginaw County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Clinton 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 Five Points North
Curious and Interesting Names Near Five Points North ...
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.
- Bannister
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Elsie
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Five Points
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Five Points is located in Shiawassee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
- Juddville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Juddville is located in Shiawassee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juddville
- Kerby
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Kerby is located in Shiawassee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kerby
- Kerby has also been known as:
- Kerby Mine
- Marion Springs
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Marion Springs is located in Saginaw County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion Springs
- Racy
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Racy is located in Saginaw County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Racy
- Wolf Crossing
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Wolf Crossing is located in Shiawassee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolf Crossing
How Far From Five Points North 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 Five Points North to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Five Points North and extending to:
- Corunna, which is the Seat of Shiawassee County, lies just to the South Southeast.
- Lansing, which is the State Capital of Michigan, lies 30 miles [48.3 km]<2> to the southwest (SW). If you could walk a straight line from Five Points North to Lansing, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 470 miles [756.4 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 19 days and walking would take 27 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,997 miles [9,651.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,733 miles [10,835.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,614 miles [7,425.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | 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 from Point A (ie- Five Points North) 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 Five Points North 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 Five Points North. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.0736, Longitude: -84.1675 In this case, the coordinates for Five Points North have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 312.123 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.876 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.47 degrees. |
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