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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 Cooper Hill, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Cooper Hill 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 Cooper Hill:
- 38.427267, -91.661555
- 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 Cooper Hill
- 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 Osage County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Osage County
- Since Cooper Hill is near Gasconade County and also Maries County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Gasconade County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Maries 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 Cooper Hill
Communities Also Named Cooper Hill ...
We found one communities that are also named Cooper Hill.
Within Missouri, the name Cooper Hill is unique.
Beyond Missouri, there is another community also named Cooper Hill in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
- Hartford 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 Connecticut community of Cooper Hill [Hartford County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cooper Hill ...
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.
- Bland
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Brown Shanty
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Brown Shanty is located in Gasconade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown Shanty
- Cave Hill
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Cave Hill is located in Gasconade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cave Hill
- Freedom
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Freedom is located in Osage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedom
- Hope
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Hope is located in Osage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hope
- Judge
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Judge is located in Osage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Judge
- Lake Ford ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Lake Ford is located in Osage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Ford
- Mint Hill
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Mint Hill is located in Osage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mint Hill
- Old Bland
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Old Bland is located in Gasconade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Bland
- Valentine Ford
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Valentine Ford is located in Gasconade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valentine Ford
How Far From Cooper Hill 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 Cooper Hill to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Cooper Hill and extending to:
- Linn, which is the Seat of Osage County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> to the west northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Cooper Hill to Linn, 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 29 miles [46.7 km] to the west northwest (WNW). The buggy would take just over a day and walking would take just about two full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 788 miles [1,268.2 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 31 days and walking would take 45 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,501 miles [10,462.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,239 miles [11,650 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,120 miles [8,239.8 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 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 Cooper Hill 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 '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- Cooper Hill) 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 Cooper Hill 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 Cooper Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.4273, Longitude: -91.6616 In this case, the coordinates for Cooper Hill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 317.029 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 313.829 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.384 degrees. |
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