Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Castleman, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Castleman and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Castleman
- 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 Castleman:
- 33.203735, -90.518701
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Castleman
- 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 Humphreys County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Humphreys County
- Since Castleman is near Sunflower County and also Leflore County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Sunflower County
- eBird sighting report for Leflore 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Castleman ...
We found one communities that share the name Castleman.
Within Mississippi, the name Castleman is unique.
Beyond Mississippi, there is another community also named Castleman in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Curious and Interesting Names Near Castleman ...
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.
- Butler
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east) - Choctaw
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east) - Floyd
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west) - Four Mile
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast) - Grass Lake
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grass Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grass Lake
- Grass Lake is located in Humphreys County
- Gum Grove
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast) - Honey Island
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Honey Island have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Honey Island
- Honey Island is located in Humphreys County
- Jaketown
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jaketown
- Jaketown is located in Humphreys County
- Midnight
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south) - Murphy
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest) - Murphy Ferry
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Murphy Ferry have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murphy Ferry
- Murphy Ferry is located in Humphreys County
- Oak Grove
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east) - Continue List (5 more) ...
- Refuge
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast) - Romeo
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south) - Silver City
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silver City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City
- Silver City is located in Humphreys County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 279 people
- Stonewall
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast) - Swiftown
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Refuge
How Far From Castleman 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 Castleman to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<4> beginning in Castleman and extending to:
- Belzoni, which is the Seat of Humphreys County, lies just to the Southeast.
- Jackson, which is the State Capital of Mississippi, lies 65 miles [104.6 km]<4> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could walk a straight line from Castleman to Jackson, with an average speed<5> 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 about three full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 847 miles [1,363.1 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 33 days and walking would take 49 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,719 miles [10,813.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,437 miles [11,968.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,312 miles [8,548.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Castleman. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for State of Mississippi: https://www.ms.gov/
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 Castleman 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> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <3> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <4> | 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- Castleman) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Castleman. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.2037, Longitude: -90.5187 In this case, the coordinates for Castleman have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Castleman to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.93 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.857 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 311.88 degrees. |