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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 Jeffersonville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Jeffersonville 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 Jeffersonville:
- 41.779930, -74.930045
- 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 Jeffersonville
- 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 Sullivan County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Sullivan County
- Since Jeffersonville is near Wayne County and also Delaware County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Wayne County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Delaware 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 Jeffersonville
Communities Also Named Jeffersonville ...
We found eleven communities that are also named Jeffersonville.
Within New York, the name Jeffersonville is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- Lee County
- This Jeffersonville is located in Lee County and lies 980 miles [1,577.2 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Jeffersonville that is located in Sullivan County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lee County community of Jeffersonville.
- Georgia
- Twiggs County
- This Jeffersonville is located in Twiggs County and lies 778 miles [1,252.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the Jeffersonville that is located in Sullivan County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Twiggs County community of Jeffersonville.
- Illinois
- Wayne County
- This Jeffersonville is located in Wayne County and lies 746 miles [1,200.6 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Jeffersonville that is located in Sullivan County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wayne County community of Jeffersonville.
- Indiana
- Clark County
- This Jeffersonville is located in Clark County and lies 616 miles [991.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Jeffersonville that is located in Sullivan County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clark County community of Jeffersonville.
- Iowa
- Lee 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 Iowa community of Jeffersonville [Lee County].
- Kansas
- Cowley 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 Kansas community of Jeffersonville [Cowley County].
- Kentucky
- Montgomery County
- This Jeffersonville is located in Montgomery County and lies 538 miles [865.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Jeffersonville that is located in Sullivan County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Jeffersonville.
- Ohio
- Fayette County
- This Jeffersonville is located in Fayette County and lies 474 miles [762.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Jeffersonville that is located in Sullivan County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Jeffersonville.
- Jefferson 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 Ohio community of Jeffersonville [Jefferson County].
- Pennsylvania
- Montgomery County
- This Jeffersonville is located in Montgomery County and lies 116 miles [186.7 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Jeffersonville that is located in Sullivan County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Jeffersonville.
- Vermont
- Lamoille County
- This Jeffersonville is located in Lamoille County and lies 224 miles [360.5 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Jeffersonville that is located in Sullivan County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lamoille County community of Jeffersonville.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Jeffersonville ...
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.
- Basket
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Basket is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basket
- Bushville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Bushville is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bushville
- Damascus
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Deckertown
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Deckertown is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deckertown
- Falls Mills
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Falls Mills is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls Mills
- Ferndale
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Harris
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Hazel
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Hazel is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazel
- Liberty
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Long Eddy
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Parksville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Rock Valley
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Rock Valley is located in Delaware County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Valley
- Continue List (4 more) ...
- Rockland
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Rockland is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockland
- Smallwood
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Stalker
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Stalker is located in Wayne County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stalker
- Swan Lake
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
How Far From Jeffersonville 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 village such as Jeffersonville to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Jeffersonville and extending to:
- Monticello, which is the Seat of Sullivan County, lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<1> to the southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Jeffersonville to Monticello, with an average speed<5> 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 85 miles [136.8 km] to the northeast (NE). 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 227 miles [365.3 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 13 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,689 miles [9,155.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,401 miles [10,301.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,277 miles [6,883.2 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>'
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 from Point A (ie- Jeffersonville) 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 Jeffersonville, 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 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 Jeffersonville 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | 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 Jeffersonville 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 Jeffersonville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7799, Longitude: -74.9300 In this case, the coordinates for Jeffersonville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.383 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.188 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.594 degrees. |
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