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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 Monmouth Junction, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Monmouth Junction 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 Monmouth Junction:
    • 40.378996, -74.546544
    • 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 Monmouth Junction
  • 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 Middlesex County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Middlesex County
    • Since Monmouth Junction is near Somerset County and also Mercer County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Somerset County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Mercer 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 Monmouth Junction

Communities Also Named Monmouth Junction ...

We found one communities that are also named Monmouth Junction.

There is one other community in New Jersey that is also named Monmouth Junction.

Beyond New Jersey.

  • Communities Located In New Jersey ...
    • Monmouth 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 Jersey community of Monmouth Junction [Monmouth County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Monmouth Junction ...

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.

  • Black Horse
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Black Horse is located in Middlesex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Horse
  • Cottageville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Cottageville is located in Middlesex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottageville
  • Fresh Ponds
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Fresh Ponds is located in Middlesex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fresh Ponds
  • Grovers Mill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Grovers Mill is located in Mercer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grovers Mill
  • Jamesburg
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Jamesburg is located in Middlesex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamesburg
  • Jamesburg Park
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Jamesburg Park is located in Middlesex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamesburg Park
  • Little Rocky Hill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Little Rocky Hill is located in Middlesex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Rocky Hill
  • Maple Meade
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Maple Meade is located in Middlesex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Meade
  • Patricks Corners
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Patricks Corners is located in Middlesex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patricks Corners
  • Pleasant Plains
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Pleasant Plains is located in Middlesex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Plains
  • Red Lion
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Red Lion is located in Middlesex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Lion
  • Sixmile Run
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Sixmile Run is located in Middlesex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sixmile Run
  • Sunset Hill Garden
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Sunset Hill Garden is located in Somerset County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Hill Garden
  • Ten Mile Run
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Ten Mile Run is located in Middlesex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ten Mile Run

How Far From Monmouth Junction 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 Monmouth Junction to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Monmouth Junction and extending to:

  • New Brunswick, which is the Seat of Middlesex County, lies just to the North Northeast.
  • Trenton, which is the State Capital of New Jersey, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<2> to the southwest (SW). If you could walk a straight line from Monmouth Junction to Trenton, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 167 miles [268.8 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about three hours, a buggy would take 7 days and walking would take 10 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,730 miles [9,221.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,436 miles [10,357.7 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,312 miles [6,939.5 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 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 Monmouth Junction 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Monmouth Junction) 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 Monmouth Junction 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 Monmouth Junction. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3790, Longitude: -74.5465       In this case, the coordinates for Monmouth Junction have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.298 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.866 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.046 degrees.