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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 Amazon, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Amazon 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 Amazon:
- 46.320207, -112.107222
- 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 Amazon
- 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 Jefferson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Jefferson County
- Since Amazon is near Lewis and Clark County and also Broadwater County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lewis and Clark County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Broadwater 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 Amazon
Communities Also Named Amazon ...
We found three communities that are also named Amazon.
Within Montana, the name Amazon is unique.
Beyond Montana, we know of three communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, .
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Kansas
- Finney 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 Kansas community of Amazon [Finney County].
- Nevada
- Elko County
- This community is historic<2> and although located in Elko County, we don't know where within the county.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Elko County community of Amazon.
- Saskatchewan
- This Amazon lies 469 miles [754.8 km]<3> to the northeast of the Amazon that is located in Jefferson County.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Amazon ...
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.
- Basin
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Blazing Place
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Blazing Place is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blazing Place
- Boulder
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Comet ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Comet is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comet
- Comet has also been known as:
- High Ore
- Elkhorn
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Elkhorn is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn
- Fuller
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Fuller is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fuller
- Portal
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Portal is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portal
- Queen
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Queen is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Queen
How Far From Amazon 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 Amazon to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Amazon and extending to:
- Boulder, which is the Seat of Jefferson County, lies just to the South.
- Helena, which is the State Capital of Montana, lies 19 miles [30.6 km]<3> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could walk a straight line from Amazon to Helena, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 hours.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,837 miles [2,956.4 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of three days, a buggy would take 72 days and walking would take 105 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,664 miles [10,724.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,433 miles [11,962.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,452 miles [8,774.1 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 Amazon 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> | 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 Amazon, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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- Amazon) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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 Amazon 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 Amazon. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.3202, Longitude: -112.1072 In this case, the coordinates for Amazon have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 332.503 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 332.637 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 321.356 degrees. |
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