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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 Buttsville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Buttsville 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 Buttsville:
- 40.212788, -93.671333
- 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 Buttsville
- 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 Grundy County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Grundy County
- Since Buttsville is near Mercer County and also Harrison County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Mercer County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Harrison 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 Buttsville
Communities Also Named Buttsville ...
We found one communities that are also named Buttsville.
Within Missouri, the name Buttsville is unique.
Beyond Missouri, there is another community also named Buttsville in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Pennsylvania
- McKean 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 Pennsylvania community of Buttsville [McKean County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Buttsville ...
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.
- Bethany
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Bolton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Bolton is located in Harrison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolton
- Edinburg
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Edinburg is located in Grundy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edinburg
- Farmersville
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Farmersville is located in Livingston County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmersville
- Half Rock
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Half Rock is located in Mercer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Half Rock
- Harris
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Hickory Creek
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Hickory Creek is located in Grundy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Creek
- Melbourne
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Melbourne is located in Harrison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melbourne
- Pleasant Ridge
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Pleasant Ridge is located in Harrison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Ridge
- Wintersville
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Wintersville is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wintersville
How Far From Buttsville 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 Buttsville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Buttsville and extending to:
- Trenton, which is the Seat of Grundy County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Buttsville to Trenton, with an average speed<4> 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.
- Jefferson City, which is the State Capital of Missouri, lies 138 miles [222.1 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 8 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 888 miles [1,429.1 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 35 days and walking would take 51 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,482 miles [10,431.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,228 miles [11,632.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,119 miles [8,238.2 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 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 Buttsville 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 from Point A (ie- Buttsville) 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 Buttsville 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 Buttsville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.2128, Longitude: -93.6713 In this case, the coordinates for Buttsville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.468 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 315.726 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.986 degrees. |
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