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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 Fruit Valley, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Fruit Valley 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 Fruit Valley:
    • 43.435346, -76.563834
    • 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 Fruit Valley
  • 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 Oswego County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Oswego County
    • Since Fruit Valley is near Cayuga County and also Onondaga County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Cayuga County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Onondaga 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 Fruit Valley

Communities Also Named Fruit Valley ...

We found two communities that are also named Fruit Valley.

Within New York, the name Fruit Valley is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Kansas
      • Reno 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 Kansas community of Fruit Valley [Reno County].
    • Tennessee
      • Bedford 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 Tennessee community of Fruit Valley [Bedford County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Fruit Valley ...

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.

  • Clark Corners
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Clark Corners is located in Oswego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clark Corners
  • Crocketts
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Crocketts is located in Cayuga County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crocketts
  • Fair Haven
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Hannibal
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Hannibal Center
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Hannibal Center is located in Oswego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hannibal Center
  • Jones Corners
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Jones Corners is located in Oswego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones Corners
  • Lakeview
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Lakeview is located in Oswego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
  • Lewis Corners
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Lewis Corners is located in Oswego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewis Corners
  • Moon Beach
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Moon Beach is located in Cayuga County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moon Beach
  • Mount Pleasant
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Mount Pleasant is located in Oswego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant

How Far From Fruit Valley 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 Fruit Valley to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Fruit Valley and extending to:

  • Oswego, which is the Seat of Oswego County, lies just to the East Northeast.
  • Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 151 miles [243 km]<3> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Fruit Valley to Albany, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 9 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 314 miles [505.3 km] to the south (S). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 18 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,687 miles [9,152.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,409 miles [10,314.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,285 miles [6,896 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 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 Fruit Valley 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fruit Valley) 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 Fruit Valley 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 Fruit Valley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.4353, Longitude: -76.5638       In this case, the coordinates for Fruit Valley have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.216 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.393 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.615 degrees.