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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 Black Eagle, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Black Eagle 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 Black Eagle:
- 47.524680, -111.278308
- 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 Black Eagle
- 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 Cascade County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Cascade County
- Since Black Eagle is near Chouteau County and also Teton County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Chouteau County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Teton 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 Black Eagle
Communities Also Named Black Eagle ...
We found one communities that are also named Black Eagle.
Within Montana, the name Black Eagle is unique.
Beyond Montana, there is another community also named Black Eagle in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- West Virginia
- Wyoming 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 West Virginia community of Black Eagle [Wyoming County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Black Eagle ...
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.
- Cooper
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Cooper is located in Cascade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooper
- Donovan Park ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Donovan Park is located in Cascade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Donovan Park
- Fields
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Fields is located in Cascade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fields
- Flood ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Flood is located in Cascade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flood
- Great Falls
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Johnstown ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Johnstown is located in Cascade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnstown
- Little Chicago ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Little Chicago is located in Cascade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Chicago
- Rainbow
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Rainbow is located in Cascade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainbow
- Smelter Hill
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Smelter Hill is located in Cascade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smelter Hill
How Far From Black Eagle 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 Black Eagle to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Black Eagle and extending to:
- Great Falls, which is the Seat of Cascade County, lies just to the South Southwest.
- Helena, which is the State Capital of Montana, lies 73 miles [117.5 km]<3> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could drive a straight line from Black Eagle to Helena, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 5 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,806 miles [2,906.5 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 71 days and walking would take 103 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,572 miles [10,576.6 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,341 miles [11,814.2 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,363 miles [8,630.9 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 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 Black Eagle 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Black Eagle) 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 Black Eagle 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 Black Eagle. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.5247, Longitude: -111.2783 In this case, the coordinates for Black Eagle have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 331.904 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 332.049 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 320.685 degrees. |
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