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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 Carriage House Estates, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Carriage House Estates 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 Carriage House Estates:
- 41.441268, -97.332325
- 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 Carriage House Estates
- 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 Platte County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Platte County
- Since Carriage House Estates is near Colfax County and also Butler County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Colfax County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Butler 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 Carriage House Estates
Curious and Interesting Names Near Carriage House Estates ...
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.
- Columbus
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- David City
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Havens
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Havens is located in Merrick County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havens
- Rescue ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Rising City
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Rogers
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Silver Creek
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Surprise
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Swedehome
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
How Far From Carriage House Estates to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Carriage House Estates to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Carriage House Estates and extending to:
- Columbus, which is the Seat of Platte County, lies just to the West Southwest.
- Lincoln, which is the State Capital of Nebraska, lies 54 miles [86.9 km]<2> to the southeast (SE). If you could walk a straight line from Carriage House Estates to Lincoln, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take over two days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,082 miles [1,741.3 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take over two days, a buggy would take 43 days and walking would take 62 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,541 miles [10,526.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,295 miles [11,740.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,201 miles [8,370.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Carriage House Estates) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Carriage House Estates 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 Carriage House Estates. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.4413, Longitude: -97.3323 |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 321.081 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 318.898 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 313.62 degrees. |
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