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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 Scoville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Scoville 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 Scoville:
- 42.015368, -103.917535
- 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 Scoville
- 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 Scotts Bluff County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Scotts Bluff County
- Since Scoville is near Furnas County and also Sioux County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Furnas County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Sioux 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 Scoville
Communities Also Named Scoville ...
We found three communities that are also named Scoville.
There is one other community in Nebraska that is also named Scoville.
Beyond Nebraska, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.
- Communities Located In Nebraska ...
- Furnas 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 Nebraska community of Scoville [Furnas County].
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Idaho
- Butte County
- This Scoville is located in Butte County and lies 471 miles [758 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Scoville that is located in Scotts Bluff County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Butte County community of Scoville.
- Kentucky
- Owsley County
- This Scoville is located in Owsley County and lies 1,114 miles [1,792.8 km]<2> to the east of the Scoville that is located in Scotts Bluff County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Owsley County community of Scoville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Scoville ...
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.
- Covert
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Covert is located in Scotts Bluff County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Covert
- Hartman
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Hartman is located in Scotts Bluff County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartman
- Henry
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Holly
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Holly is located in Goshen County (WY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly
- Jane
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Jane is located in Scotts Bluff County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jane
- Joyce
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Joyce is located in Scotts Bluff County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joyce
- Mitchell
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Roach
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Roach is located in Scotts Bluff County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roach
- Terrytown
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
How Far From Scoville 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 Scoville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Scoville and extending to:
- Gering, which is the Seat of Scotts Bluff County, lies 18 miles [29 km]<2> to the southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Scoville to Gering, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over 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.
- Lincoln, which is the State Capital of Nebraska, lies 382 miles [614.8 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of a day, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 22 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,422 miles [2,288.5 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 56 days and walking would take 81 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,711 miles [10,800.3 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 7,475 miles [12,029.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,412 miles [8,709.8 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 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 Scoville 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' (or 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- Scoville) 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 Scoville 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 Scoville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.0154, Longitude: -103.9175 In this case, the coordinates for Scoville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 325.916 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 324.569 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 317.095 degrees. |
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