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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 Granite Bluff, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Granite Bluff 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 Granite Bluff:
- 45.939397, -88.053742
- 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 Granite Bluff
- 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 Dickinson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Dickinson County
- Since Granite Bluff is near Florence County and also Iron County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Florence County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Iron 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 Granite Bluff
Communities Also Named Granite Bluff ...
We found one communities that are also named Granite Bluff.
Within Michigan, the name Granite Bluff is unique.
Beyond Michigan, there is another community also named Granite Bluff in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kansas
- Phillips County
- 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 Kansas community of Granite Bluff [Phillips County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Granite Bluff ...
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.
- Aurora
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Aurora is located in Florence County (WI)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurora
- Florence
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Florence is located in Florence County (WI)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
- Hematite
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Hematite is located in Florence County (WI)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hematite
- Iron Mountain
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Pulp
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Pulp is located in Florence County (WI)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pulp
- Ridgetop
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Ridgetop is located in Florence County (WI)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgetop
- Skidmore
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Skidmore is located in Dickinson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skidmore
- Spread Eagle
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Spread Eagle is located in Florence County (WI)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spread Eagle
How Far From Granite Bluff 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 Granite Bluff to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Granite Bluff and extending to:
- Iron Mountain, which is the Seat of Dickinson County, lies just to the South.
- Lansing, which is the State Capital of Michigan, lies 280 miles [450.6 km]<3> to the southeast (SE). If you could drive a straight line from Granite Bluff to Lansing, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 16 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 11 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 741 miles [1,192.5 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 29 days and walking would take 43 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,000 miles [9,656.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,750 miles [10,863.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,648 miles [7,480.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 Granite Bluff 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Granite Bluff) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Granite Bluff 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 Granite Bluff. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.9394, Longitude: -88.0537 In this case, the coordinates for Granite Bluff have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.631 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.136 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.522 degrees. |
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