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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 Mays Landing, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Mays Landing 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 Mays Landing:
- 39.454302, -74.726333
- 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 Mays Landing
- 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 Atlantic County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Atlantic County
- Since Mays Landing is near Cumberland County and also Monmouth County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Cumberland County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Monmouth 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 Mays Landing
Communities Also Named Mays Landing ...
We found one communities that are also named Mays Landing.
Within New Jersey, the name Mays Landing is unique.
Beyond New Jersey, there is another community also named Mays Landing in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- New York
- Yates 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 New York community of Mays Landing [Yates County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Mays Landing ...
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.
- Clarkstown
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Clover Leaf Lakes
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Clover Leaf Lakes is located in Atlantic County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clover Leaf Lakes
- Dorothy
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Egg Harbor City
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- English Creek
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- English Creek is located in Atlantic County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for English Creek
- English Creek Landing
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Gigantic City
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Gigantic City is located in Atlantic County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gigantic City
- Gravelly Run
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Gravelly Run is located in Atlantic County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravelly Run
- High Bank Landing
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- High Bank Landing is located in Atlantic County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Bank Landing
- Steelman Landing
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Steelman Landing is located in Atlantic County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steelman Landing
How Far From Mays Landing 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 Mays Landing to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Mays Landing and extending to:
- Trenton, which is the State Capital of New Jersey, lies 52 miles [83.7 km]<2> to the north (N). If you could walk a straight line from Mays Landing to Trenton, 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 129 miles [207.6 km] to the west southwest (WSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 8 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,776 miles [9,295.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,478 miles [10,425.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,355 miles [7,008.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>'
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 Mays Landing 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Mays Landing) 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 Mays Landing 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 Mays Landing. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.4543, Longitude: -74.7263 |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.491 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.938 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.52 degrees. |
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