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 Leisure Village:
46.244366, -114.152594
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 Leisure Village
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 Ravalli County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found five communities that are also named Leisure Village.
Within Montana, the name Leisure Village is unique.
Beyond Montana, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
California
Ventura County
This Leisure Village is located in Ventura County and lies 868 miles [1,396.9 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Leisure Village that is located in Ravalli County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ventura County community of Leisure Village.
Illinois
Lake County
We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Leisure Village [Lake County].
Louisiana
Ouachita Parish
This Leisure Village is located in Ouachita Parish and lies 1,503 miles [2,418.8 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Leisure Village that is located in Ravalli County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ouachita Parish community of Leisure Village.
New York
Oneida County
This Leisure Village is located in Oneida County and lies 1,881 miles [3,027.2 km]<1> to the east of the Leisure Village that is located in Ravalli County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oneida County community of Leisure Village.
South Carolina
Anderson County
This Leisure Village is located in Anderson County and lies 1,819 miles [2,927.4 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Leisure Village that is located in Ravalli County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anderson County community of Leisure Village.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Leisure Village ...
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.
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 Leisure Village to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Leisure Village and extending to:
Helena, which is the State Capital of Montana, lies 104 miles [167.4 km]<1> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Leisure Village to Helena, with an average speed<3>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 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 4 days.
The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,935 miles [3,114.1 km] to the east (E). Driving would take three full days, a buggy would take 76 days and walking would take 110 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,712 miles [10,801.9 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,481 miles [12,039.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,516 miles [8,877.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Leisure Village) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>
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 Leisure Village 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.
<3>
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.
<4>
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 Leisure Village 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 Leisure Village. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.2444, Longitude: -114.1526 In this case, the coordinates for Leisure Village have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 334.129 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 334.516 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 322.635 degrees.