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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 Carytown, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Carytown 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 Carytown:
- 37.261596, -94.334360
- 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 Carytown
- 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 Jasper County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Jasper County
- Since Carytown is near Barton County and also Cherokee County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Barton County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Cherokee 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 Carytown
Communities Also Named Carytown ...
We found one communities that are also named Carytown.
There is one other community in Missouri that is also named Carytown.
Beyond Missouri.
- Communities Located In Missouri ...
- Jackson 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 Missouri community of Carytown [Jackson County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Carytown ...
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.
- Boston
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Boston is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boston
- Carterville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Carthage
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Forest Mills
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Forest Mills is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Mills
- Galesburg
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Galesburg is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galesburg
- Jasper
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Knights
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Knights is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knights
- Maxville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Maxville is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxville
- Neck City
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Neck City is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neck City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 196 people
- Prosperity
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Prosperity is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prosperity
- Tuckers Corner
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Tuckers Corner is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuckers Corner
How Far From Carytown 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 Carytown to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Carytown and extending to:
- Carthage, which is the Seat of Jasper County, lies just to the South Southeast.
- Jefferson City, which is the State Capital of Missouri, lies 148 miles [238.2 km]<3> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Carytown to Jefferson City, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 945 miles [1,520.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 37 days and walking would take 54 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,659 miles [10,716.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,399 miles [11,907.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,283 miles [8,502.2 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 Carytown 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- Carytown) 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 Carytown 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 Carytown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.2616, Longitude: -94.3344 In this case, the coordinates for Carytown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.742 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 315.658 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.88 degrees. |
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