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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 Eddyville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Eddyville 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 Eddyville:
    • 41.894259, -74.025973
    • 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 Eddyville
  • 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 Ulster County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Ulster County
    • Since Eddyville is near Dutchess County and also Columbia County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Dutchess County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Columbia 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 Eddyville

Communities Also Named Eddyville ...

We found twelve communities that are also named Eddyville.

There is one other community in New York that is also named Eddyville.

Beyond New York, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Located In New York ...
    • Cattaraugus County
      • This Eddyville is located in Cattaraugus County and lies 244 miles [392.7 km]<1> to the west of the Eddyville that is located in Ulster County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cattaraugus County community of Eddyville.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • Humboldt County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the California community of Eddyville [Humboldt County].
    • Idaho
      • Kootenai County
      • This Eddyville is located in Kootenai County and lies 2,103 miles [3,384.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Eddyville that is located in Ulster County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kootenai County community of Eddyville.
    • Illinois
      • Pope County
      • This Eddyville is located in Pope County and lies 829 miles [1,334.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Eddyville that is located in Ulster County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pope County community of Eddyville.
    • Iowa
      • Wapello County
      • This Eddyville is located in Wapello County and lies 961 miles [1,546.6 km]<1> to the west of the Eddyville that is located in Ulster County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wapello County community of Eddyville.
    • Kentucky
      • Lyon County
      • This Eddyville is located in Lyon County and lies 818 miles [1,316.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Eddyville that is located in Ulster County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lyon County community of Eddyville.
    • Massachusetts
      • Plymouth County
      • This Eddyville is located in Plymouth County and lies 163 miles [262.3 km]<1> to the east of the Eddyville that is located in Ulster County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Plymouth County community of Eddyville.
    • Nebraska
      • Dawson County
      • This Eddyville is located in Dawson County and lies 1,321 miles [2,125.9 km]<1> to the west of the Eddyville that is located in Ulster County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dawson County community of Eddyville.
    • Nevada
      • Mineral County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Mineral County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mineral County community of Eddyville.
    • Oregon
      • Benton County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Oregon community of Eddyville [Benton County].
      • Lincoln County
      • This Eddyville is located in Lincoln County and lies 2,469 miles [3,973.5 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Eddyville that is located in Ulster County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lincoln County community of Eddyville.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Armstrong County
      • This Eddyville is located in Armstrong County and lies 279 miles [449 km]<1> to the west of the Eddyville that is located in Ulster County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Armstrong County community of Eddyville.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Eddyville ...

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.

  • Creeklocks
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Creeklocks is located in Ulster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creeklocks
  • Dashville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Dashville is located in Ulster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dashville
  • Hickorybush
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Hickorybush is located in Ulster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickorybush
  • Hillside
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Hillside is located in Ulster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside
  • Lincoln Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Lincoln Park is located in Ulster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Park
  • Maple Hill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Maple Hill is located in Ulster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Hill
  • Marbletown
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Marbletown is located in Ulster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marbletown
  • Riverside Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Riverside Park is located in Ulster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside Park
  • Rolling Meadows
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Rolling Meadows is located in Ulster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Meadows
  • Union Center
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Union Center is located in Ulster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Center

How Far From Eddyville to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Eddyville to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Eddyville and extending to:

  • Kingston, which is the Seat of Ulster County, lies just to the North Northeast.
  • Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 54 miles [86.9 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could walk a straight line from Eddyville to Albany, 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 260 miles [418.4 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 15 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,647 miles [9,088 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,358 miles [10,232.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,233 miles [6,812.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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- Eddyville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Eddyville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 Eddyville 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.
<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 Eddyville 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 Eddyville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.8943, Longitude: -74.0260       In this case, the coordinates for Eddyville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.823 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.574 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.134 degrees.