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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 Honnedaga, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Honnedaga 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 Honnedaga:
- 43.381180, -75.200722
- 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 Honnedaga
- 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 Oneida County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Oneida County
- Since Honnedaga is near Herkimer County and also Lewis County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Herkimer County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lewis 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 Honnedaga
Communities Also Named Honnedaga ...
We found one communities that are also named Honnedaga.
There is one other community in New York that is also named Honnedaga.
Beyond New York.
- Communities Located In New York ...
- Herkimer 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 Honnedaga [Herkimer County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Honnedaga ...
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.
- Big Brook
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Big Brook is located in Oneida County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Brook
- Fink Hollow
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Fink Hollow is located in Oneida County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fink Hollow
- Forestport
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Frenchville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Frenchville is located in Oneida County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frenchville
- Grant
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Grant is located in Herkimer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant
- Gravesville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Gravesville is located in Herkimer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravesville
- Hillside
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Hillside is located in Oneida County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside
- Hurlbutville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Hurlbutville is located in Oneida County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurlbutville
- Mapledale
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Mapledale is located in Oneida County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mapledale
- Prospect
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
How Far From Honnedaga 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 Honnedaga to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Honnedaga and extending to:
- Utica, which is the Seat of Oneida County, lies 19 miles [30.6 km]<3> to the south. If you could walk a straight line from Honnedaga to Utica, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 hours.
- Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 88 miles [141.6 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 323 miles [519.8 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 5,634 miles [9,067 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,354 miles [10,225.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,229 miles [6,805.9 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 Honnedaga 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 from Point A (ie- Honnedaga) 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 Honnedaga 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 Honnedaga. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.3812, Longitude: -75.2007 In this case, the coordinates for Honnedaga have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.369 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.431 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 301.988 degrees. |
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