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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 Wormser, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Wormser 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 Wormser:
- 45.977166, -110.000466
- 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 Wormser
- 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 Sweet Grass County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Sweet Grass County
- Since Wormser is near Park County and also Stillwater County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Park County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Stillwater 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 Wormser
Curious and Interesting Names Near Wormser ...
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.
- Big Timber
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Clyde Park
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Elton
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Elton is located in Park County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elton
- Greycliff
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Hunters Hot Springs
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Hunters Hot Springs is located in Park County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters Hot Springs
- Norwegian Settlement ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Norwegian Settlement is located in Sweet Grass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norwegian Settlement
- Reed Point
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Sourdough
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Sourdough is located in Sweet Grass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sourdough
- Woods Place
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Woods Place is located in Park County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods Place
How Far From Wormser 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 Wormser 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<2> community of Wormser once stood, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Wormser and extending to:
- Big Timber, which is the Seat of Sweet Grass County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Wormser to Big Timber, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
- Helena, which is the State Capital of Montana, lies 105 miles [169 km] to the west northwest (WNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,735 miles [2,792.2 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<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,637 miles [10,681.2 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 7,406 miles [11,918.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,407 miles [8,701.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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 Wormser, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Wormser) 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 Wormser 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 Wormser. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.9772, Longitude: -110.0005 In this case, the coordinates for Wormser have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 330.823 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 330.663 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 320.107 degrees. |
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