Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Great Meadows, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Great Meadows and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Great Meadows
- 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 Great Meadows:
- 40.870932, -74.912114
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Great Meadows
- 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 Warren County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Warren County
- Since Great Meadows is near Morris County and also Hunterdon County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Morris County
- eBird sighting report for Hunterdon 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Great Meadows ...
We found two communities that share the name Great Meadows.
Within New Jersey, the name Great Meadows is unique.
Beyond New Jersey, we know of another two communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Connecticut
- Fairfield 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 Connecticut community of Great Meadows [Fairfield County].
- Maryland
- Anne Arundel County
- This Great Meadows is located in Anne Arundel County and lies 152 miles [244.6 km]<2> to the southwest of the Great Meadows that is located in Warren County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Anne Arundel County community of Great Meadows.
- Connecticut
Curious and Interesting Names Near Great Meadows ...
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.
- Anthony
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south) - Brass Castle
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brass Castle have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brass Castle
- Brass Castle is located in Warren County
- Butler Park
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Butler Park have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butler Park
- Butler Park is located in Warren County
- Buttzville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buttzville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buttzville
- Buttzville is located in Warren County
- Cornish
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest) - Delaware
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west) - Drakestown
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Drakestown have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drakestown
- Drakestown is located in Morris County
- Ebenezer
(5 miles [8 km] to the north) - Hope
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hope
- Hope is located in Warren County
- Long Bridge
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Long Bridge. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Bridge
- Long Bridge is located in Warren County
- Marble Hill
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marble Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marble Hill
- Marble Hill is located in Warren County
- Marksboro
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north) - Continue List (7 more) ...
- Pleasant Grove
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pleasant Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Grove
- Pleasant Grove is located in Morris County
- Polkville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest) - Rockport
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast) - Scrappy Corner
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Scrappy Corner have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scrappy Corner
- Scrappy Corner is located in Hunterdon County
- Springtown
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Springtown have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springtown
- Springtown is located in Morris County
- Tranquility
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tranquility
- Tranquility is located in Sussex County
- Vail
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vail
- Vail is located in Warren County
- Pleasant Grove
How Far From Great Meadows 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 Great Meadows to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Great Meadows and extending to:
- Belvidere, which is the Seat of Warren County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the west southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Great Meadows to Belvidere, with an average speed<5> 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.
- Trenton, which is the State Capital of New Jersey, lies 45 miles [72.4 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take most of two days and walking would take about three full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 176 miles [283.2 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving would take about three hours, a buggy would take 7 days and walking would take 10 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,725 miles [9,213.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,434 miles [10,354.5 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,310 miles [6,936.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Great Meadows. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Warren County: www.co.warren.nj.us/
The official website for State of New Jersey: https://www.nj.gov/
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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Great Meadows 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Great Meadows) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Great Meadows. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.8709, Longitude: -74.9121 In this case, the coordinates for Great Meadows have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <3> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <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 Great Meadows to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.467 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.136 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.99 degrees. |