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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 Lewis Lake, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Lewis Lake 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 Lewis Lake:
- 45.766628, -93.368839
- 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 Lewis Lake
- 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 Kanabec County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Kanabec County
- Since Lewis Lake is near Isanti County and also Mille Lacs County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Isanti County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Mille Lacs 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 Lewis Lake
Communities Also Named Lewis Lake ...
We found two communities that are also named Lewis Lake.
Within Minnesota, the name Lewis Lake is unique.
Beyond Minnesota, we know of two communities that are located in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Manitoba
- We haven't found the location of this community yet.
- Nova Scotia
- 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 Nova Scotia community of Lewis Lake.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Lewis Lake ...
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.
- Coin
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Coin is located in Kanabec County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coin
- Day
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Day is located in Isanti County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Day
- Elm Park
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Elm Park is located in Isanti County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elm Park
- Grass Lake
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Grass Lake is located in Kanabec County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grass Lake
- Page
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Page is located in Mille Lacs County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Page
- Pine City
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Rush Point
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Rush Point is located in Chisago County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rush Point
- Springvale
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Springvale is located in Isanti County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springvale
- Stanley
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Stanley is located in Isanti County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley
- Stark
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Stark is located in Chisago County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stark
How Far From Lewis Lake 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 Lewis Lake to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Lewis Lake and extending to:
- Mora, which is the Seat of Kanabec County, lies just to the North Northeast.
- Saint Paul, which is the State Capital of Minnesota, lies 57 miles [91.7 km]<3> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could walk a straight line from Lewis Lake to Saint Paul, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 956 miles [1,538.5 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of two days, a buggy would take 38 days and walking would take 55 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,185 miles [9,953.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,941 miles [11,170.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,854 miles [7,811.8 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 Lewis Lake 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Lewis Lake) 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 Lewis Lake 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 Lewis Lake. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.7666, Longitude: -93.3688 In this case, the coordinates for Lewis Lake have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.368 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 316.347 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 310.486 degrees. |
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