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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 Home Park, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Home Park 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 Home Park:
- 41.321947, -95.941935
- 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 Home Park
- 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 Douglas County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Douglas County
- Since Home Park is near Pottawattamie County and also Washington County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Pottawattamie County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Washington 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 Home Park
Communities Also Named Home Park ...
We found five communities that are also named Home Park.
Within Nebraska, the name Home Park is unique.
Beyond Nebraska, we know of five communities that are located in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Mississippi
- Yazoo 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 Mississippi community of Home Park [Yazoo County].
- Montana
- Madison 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 Home Park [Madison County].
- Ohio
- Lawrence County
- This Home Park is located in Lawrence County and lies 745 miles [1,199 km]<2> to the east of the Home Park that is located in Douglas County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lawrence County community of Home Park.
- Pennsylvania
- Lehigh County
- This Home Park is located in Lehigh County and lies 1,062 miles [1,709.1 km]<2> to the east of the Home Park that is located in Douglas County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lehigh County community of Home Park.
- Wisconsin
- Chippewa 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 Wisconsin community of Home Park [Chippewa County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Home Park ...
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.
- Boys Town
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Clara
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Clara is located in Pottawattamie County (IA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clara
- Council Bluffs
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Crescent
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- De Soto ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Fort Crook
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Fort Crook is located in Sarpy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Crook
- Green Meadows
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Green Meadows is located in Douglas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Meadows
- Honey Creek
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Honey Creek is located in Pottawattamie County (IA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Honey Creek
- Lane
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Lane is located in Douglas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lane
- Loveland
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Loveland is located in Pottawattamie County (IA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loveland
- Pigeon
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Portal
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Portal is located in Sarpy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portal
How Far From Home Park 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 Home Park to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Home Park and extending to:
- Omaha, which is the Seat of Douglas County, lies just to the Southwest.
- Lincoln, which is the State Capital of Nebraska, lies 52 miles [83.7 km]<2> to the southwest (SW). If you could walk a straight line from Home Park to Lincoln, with an average speed<4> 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 1,010 miles [1,625.4 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 40 days and walking would take 58 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,502 miles [10,464 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,254 miles [11,674.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,155 miles [8,296.2 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek 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 Home Park 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 '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- Home Park) 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> | 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 Home Park 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 Home Park. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.3219, Longitude: -95.9419 |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 320.093 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 317.743 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.916 degrees. |
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