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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.

  • Weather ...
  • 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.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Mays Landing
  • 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 Mays Landing ...

We found one communities that share the name 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)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarkstown
    • Clarkstown is located in Atlantic County
  • Clover Leaf Lakes
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clover Leaf Lakes have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clover Leaf Lakes
    • Clover Leaf Lakes is located in Atlantic County
  • Dorothy
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorothy
    • Dorothy is located in Atlantic County
  • Egg Harbor City
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egg Harbor City
    • Egg Harbor City is located in Atlantic County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,057 people
  • English Creek
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for English Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for English Creek
    • English Creek is located in Atlantic County
  • English Creek Landing
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for English Creek Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for English Creek Landing
    • English Creek Landing is located in Atlantic County
  • Gigantic City
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gigantic City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gigantic City
    • Gigantic City is located in Atlantic County
  • Gravelly Run
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gravelly Run have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravelly Run
    • Gravelly Run is located in Atlantic County
  • High Bank Landing
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for High Bank Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Bank Landing
    • High Bank Landing is located in Atlantic County
  • Steelman Landing
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Steelman Landing have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steelman Landing
    • Steelman Landing is located in Atlantic County

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<3> beginning in Mays Landing and extending to:

  • Trenton, which is the State Capital of New Jersey, lies 52 miles [83.7 km]<3> to the north (N). If you could walk a straight line from Mays Landing to Trenton, 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 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<5> 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).<6>
  • 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).<7>
  • 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).<8>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Mays Landing. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Atlantic County: www.aclink.org/

The official website for State of New Jersey: https://www.state.nj.us/

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>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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Mays Landing) to Point B.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    
<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 Mays Landing to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.491 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.938 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.52 degrees.




 

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