Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Fisher, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Fisher and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Fisher
- 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 Fisher:
- 47.799304, -96.799677
- 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 Fisher
- 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 Polk County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Polk County
- Since Fisher is near Grand Forks County and also Red Lake County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Grand Forks County
- eBird sighting report for Red Lake 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Fisher ...
We found 34 communities that share the name Fisher.
Within Minnesota, the name Fisher is unique.
Beyond Minnesota, we know of another 34 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 34 communities, 33 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Craighead County
- This Fisher is located in Craighead County and lies 881 miles [1,417.8 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Fisher that is located in Polk County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Craighead County community of Fisher.
- Poinsett County
- This Fisher is located in Poinsett County and lies 900 miles [1,448.4 km] to the south southeast of the Fisher that is located in Polk County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Poinsett County community of Fisher.
- California
- Humboldt County
- This Fisher is located in Humboldt County and lies 1,420 miles [2,285.3 km]<1> to the west of the Fisher that is located in Polk County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Humboldt County community of Fisher.
- Shasta 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 California community of Fisher [Shasta County].
- Colorado
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Michigan
- Branch County
- This Fisher is located in Branch County and lies 710 miles [1,142.6 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Fisher that is located in Polk County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Branch County community of Fisher.
- Gladwin 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 Michigan community of Fisher [Gladwin County].
- Kent County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Fisher [Kent County].
- Menominee County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Fisher [Menominee County].
- Presque Isle County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Fisher [Presque Isle County].
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Athens County
- This Fisher is located in Athens County and lies 937 miles [1,508 km]<1> to the southeast of the Fisher that is located in Polk County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Athens County community of Fisher.
- Harrison County
- This community is historic<2> and although located in Harrison County, we don't know where within the county.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harrison County community of Fisher.
- Perry 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 Ohio community of Fisher [Perry County].
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Clarion County
- This Fisher is located in Clarion County and lies 971 miles [1,562.7 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Fisher that is located in Polk County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clarion County community of Fisher.
- Indiana 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 Pennsylvania community of Fisher [Indiana County].
- Washington County
- This Fisher is located in Washington County and lies 987 miles [1,588.4 km] to the east southeast of the Fisher that is located in Polk County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Fisher.
- Quebec
- This Fisher lies 874 miles [1,406.6 km]<1> to the east of the Fisher that is located in Polk County.
- Texas
- Dallas 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 Texas community of Fisher [Dallas County].
- Fisher County
- This Fisher is located in Fisher County and lies 1,052 miles [1,693 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Fisher that is located in Polk County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fisher County community of Fisher.
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Hardy County
- This Fisher is located in Hardy County and lies 1,073 miles [1,726.8 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Fisher that is located in Polk County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hardy County community of Fisher.
- Randolph 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 West Virginia community of Fisher [Randolph County].
- Wyoming
- Arkansas
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fisher ...
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.
- Climax
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south) - Dorothy
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast) - Euclid
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Euclid
- Euclid is located in Polk County
- Freeman
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast) - Grand Forks
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Forks
- Grand Forks is located in Grand Forks County (ND)
- Population from the 2020 Census: 55,950 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grand Forks <5>
- Greenview
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast) - Harold
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast) - Mallory
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
How Far From Fisher 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 city such as Fisher to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Fisher and extending to:
- Crookston, which is the Seat of Polk County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the east southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Fisher to Crookston, with an average speed<6> 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.
- Saint Paul, which is the State Capital of Minnesota, lies 264 miles [424.9 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 15 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,162 miles [1,870.1 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take about three full days, a buggy would take 46 days and walking would take 66 days.
- The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,183 miles [9,950.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,946 miles [11,178.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,884 miles [7,860 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Fisher. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Polk County: www.co.polk.mn.us/
The official website for State of Minnesota: https://mn.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Fisher) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fisher. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.7993, Longitude: -96.7997 In this case, the coordinates for Fisher 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 Fisher, 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 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 Fisher 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 Fisher 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 320.845 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 319.427 degrees. |
| <10> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.899 degrees. |