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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 Philbrook, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Philbrook 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 Philbrook:
- 46.985520, -109.973808
- 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 Philbrook
- 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 Judith Basin County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Judith Basin County
- Since Philbrook is near Fergus County and also Wheatland County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Fergus County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Wheatland 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 Philbrook
Communities Also Named Philbrook ...
We found two communities that are also named Philbrook.
There is one other community in Montana that is also named Philbrook.
Beyond Montana, there is another community also named Philbrook in the United States.
- Communities Located In Montana ...
- Fergus 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 Montana community of Philbrook [Fergus County].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Minnesota
- Todd County
- This Philbrook is located in Todd County and lies 723 miles [1,163.6 km]<2> to the east of the Philbrook that is located in Judith Basin County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Todd County community of Philbrook.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Philbrook ...
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.
- Beaver Creek
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Beaver Creek is located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Creek
- Buffalo
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Cottonwood
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Cottonwood is located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
- Dover
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Dover is located in Judith Basin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover
- Eddies Corner
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Eddies Corner is located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eddies Corner
- Moccasin
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Sapphire Village
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Sapphire Village is located in Judith Basin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sapphire Village
- Spring Creek Junction
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Straw
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Straw is located in Fergus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Straw
- Surprise Creek Colony
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Surprise Creek Colony is located in Judith Basin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Surprise Creek Colony
How Far From Philbrook 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 Philbrook 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<4> community of Philbrook once stood, the straight-line distance beginning in Philbrook and extending to:
- Stanford, which is the Seat of Judith Basin County, lies 16 miles [25.7 km]<2> to the northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Philbrook to Stanford, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take five to six hours.
- Helena, which is the State Capital of Montana, lies 100 miles [160.9 km] to the west southwest (WSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,741 miles [2,801.9 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 68 days and walking would take 99 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,575 miles [10,581.4 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 7,344 miles [11,819 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,352 miles [8,613.2 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 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 Philbrook 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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Philbrook) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | 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 Philbrook, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <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 Philbrook 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 Philbrook. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.9855, Longitude: -109.9738 In this case, the coordinates for Philbrook have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 330.851 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 330.788 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 319.952 degrees. |
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