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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 Wyandotte, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Wyandotte 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 Wyandotte:
    • 46.889933, -88.875411
    • 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.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Wyandotte
  • 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:
    • Waymark.com

Communities Also Named Wyandotte ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Wyandotte.

There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Wyandotte.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another ten communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Located In Michigan ...
    • Wayne County
      • This Wyandotte is located in Wayne County and lies 428 miles [688.8 km]<1> to the southeast of the Wyandotte that is located in Houghton County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Wyandotte.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Hot Spring County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Wyandotte [Hot Spring County].
    • California
      • Butte County
      • This Wyandotte is located in Butte County and lies 1,705 miles [2,743.9 km]<1> to the west of the Wyandotte that is located in Houghton County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butte County community of Wyandotte.
    • Indiana
      • Crawford County
      • This Wyandotte is located in Crawford County and lies 612 miles [984.9 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Wyandotte that is located in Houghton County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Crawford County community of Wyandotte.
    • Kentucky
      • Clark County
      • This Wyandotte is located in Clark County and lies 653 miles [1,050.9 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Wyandotte that is located in Houghton County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of Wyandotte.
    • Louisiana
      • Saint Mary Parish
      • This Wyandotte is located in Saint Mary Parish and lies 1,194 miles [1,921.6 km]<1> to the south of the Wyandotte that is located in Houghton County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Mary Parish community of Wyandotte.
    • Mississippi
      • Bolivar County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Wyandotte [Bolivar County].
    • Missouri
      • Grundy County
      • This Wyandotte is located in Grundy County and lies 521 miles [838.5 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Wyandotte that is located in Houghton County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grundy County community of Wyandotte.
      • Linn County
      • Although located in Linn County, we don't know the location within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Linn County community of Wyandotte.
    • Ohio
      • Fairfield County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Wyandotte [Fairfield County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Ottawa County
      • This Wyandotte is located in Ottawa County and lies 758 miles [1,219.9 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Wyandotte that is located in Houghton County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ottawa County community of Wyandotte.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Wyandotte ...

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.

  • Baltic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baltic
    • Baltic is located in Houghton County
  • Bear Town
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bear Town have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Town
    • Bear Town is located in Baraga County
  • Champion Mine
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Champion Mine
    • Champion Mine is located in Houghton County
  • Greenland
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Hazel
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hazel have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazel
    • Hazel is located in Houghton County
  • Mass City
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mass City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mass City
    • Mass City is located in Ontonagon County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mass City <5>
  • Redridge
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redridge
    • Redridge is located in Houghton County
  • Rockland
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rockland have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockland
    • Rockland is located in Ontonagon County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rockland <5>
  • Salmon Trout
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Salmon Trout have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salmon Trout
    • Salmon Trout is located in Houghton County
  • Superior
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Superior have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Superior
    • Superior is located in Houghton County
  • Twin Lakes
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Twin Lakes have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Lakes
    • Twin Lakes is located in Houghton County

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

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

  • Houghton, which is the Seat of Houghton County, lies 21 miles [33.8 km]<1> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Wyandotte to Houghton, with an average speed<6> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
  • Lansing, which is the State Capital of Michigan, lies 356 miles [572.9 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 14 days and walking would take 21 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 812 miles [1,306.8 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 32 days and walking would take 47 days.
  • The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,982 miles [9,627.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,734 miles [10,837.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,639 miles [7,465.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Wyandotte. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Michigan: https://www.michigan.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>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- Wyandotte) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wyandotte. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.8899, Longitude: -88.8754       In this case, the coordinates for Wyandotte have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<2>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 Wyandotte, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 Wyandotte 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.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>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.
<7>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 Wyandotte to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.166 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.876 degrees.
<10>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.657 degrees.









 

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