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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 Fish House, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Fish House 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 Fish House:
- 43.144517, -74.132908
- 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 Fish House
- 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 Fulton County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Fulton County
- Since Fish House is near Saratoga County and also Hamilton County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Saratoga County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Hamilton 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 Fish House
Communities Also Named Fish House ...
We found one communities that are also named Fish House.
Within New York, the name Fish House is unique.
Beyond New York, there is another community also named Fish House in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- New Jersey
- Camden 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 Fish House [Camden County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Fish House ...
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.
- Carpenters Corners
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Carpenters Corners is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carpenters Corners
- Clarkville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Clarkville is located in Saratoga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarkville
- Cranberry Creek
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Cranberry Creek is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cranberry Creek
- Edinburg
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Fayville
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Fayville is located in Saratoga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fayville
- Fox Hill
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Fox Hill is located in Saratoga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Hill
- Green Corners
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Green Corners is located in Saratoga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Corners
- Honeywell Corners
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Honeywell Corners is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Honeywell Corners
- Maple Grove
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Maple Grove is located in Hamilton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Grove
- Red Bunch Corners
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Red Bunch Corners is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bunch Corners
- Sweets Crossing
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Sweets Crossing is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweets Crossing
- Union Mills
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Union Mills is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Mills
- Vail Mills
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Vail Mills is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vail Mills
How Far From Fish House 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 Fish House to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Fish House and extending to:
- Johnstown, which is the Seat of Fulton County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<3> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Fish House to Johnstown, with an average speed<4> 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.
- Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 38 miles [61.2 km] to the south southeast (SSE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take just about two full days and walking would take over two days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 329 miles [529.5 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 19 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,601 miles [9,013.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,317 miles [10,166.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,192 miles [6,746.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'
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 Fish House 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Fish House) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Fish House 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 Fish House. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.1445, Longitude: -74.1329 In this case, the coordinates for Fish House have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 305.735 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 301.681 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.595 degrees. |
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