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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 Ilia, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Ilia 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 Ilia:
- 40.530565, -93.450496
- 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 Ilia
- 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 Mercer County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Mercer County
- Since Ilia is near Wayne County and also Putnam County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Wayne County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Putnam 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 Ilia
Communities Also Named Ilia ...
We found one communities that are also named Ilia.
Within Missouri, the name Ilia is unique.
Beyond Missouri, there is another community also named Ilia in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Washington
- Garfield 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 Washington community of Ilia [Garfield County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Ilia ...
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.
- Big Spring ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Big Spring is located in Wayne County (IA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Spring
- Burrows
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Burrows is located in Mercer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burrows
- Galesburg
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Galesburg is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galesburg
- Half Rock
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Half Rock is located in Mercer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Half Rock
- Harris
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Harvard
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Harvard is located in Wayne County (IA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harvard
- High Point
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- High Point is located in Decatur County (IA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Point
- Hodge
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Hodge is located in Wayne County (IA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hodge
- Lineville
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Lineville is located in Wayne County (IA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lineville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 217 people
- Powersville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Powersville is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powersville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 54 people
- Saline
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Saline is located in Mercer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saline
How Far From Ilia to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Ilia to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic<3> community of Ilia once stood, the straight-line distance<4> beginning in Ilia and extending to:
- Princeton, which is the Seat of Mercer County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<4> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Ilia to Princeton, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
- Jefferson City, which is the State Capital of Missouri, lies 150 miles [241.4 km] to the south southeast (SSE). 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 9 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 877 miles [1,411.4 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 35 days and walking would take 50 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,458 miles [10,393.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,204 miles [11,593.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,095 miles [8,199.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Ilia 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> | 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 Ilia, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Ilia) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | 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 Ilia 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 Ilia. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.5306, Longitude: -93.4505 In this case, the coordinates for Ilia have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 318.33 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 315.609 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.807 degrees. |
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