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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 McKinneys, we use the following websites to find information relevant to McKinneys 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 McKinneys:
- 42.478684, -76.507719
- 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 McKinneys
- 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 Tompkins County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Tompkins County
- Since McKinneys is near Seneca County and also Schuyler County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Seneca County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Schuyler 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 McKinneys
Communities Also Named McKinneys ...
We found one communities that are also named McKinneys.
Within New York, the name McKinneys is unique.
Beyond New York, there is another community also named McKinneys in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Michigan
- Wayne 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 Michigan community of McKinneys [Wayne County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near McKinneys ...
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.
- Christian Hill
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Christian Hill is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christian Hill
- Forest Home
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Forest Home is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Home
- Freeville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Grotto
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Grotto is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grotto
- Head Corners
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Head Corners is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Head Corners
- Howland Corners
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Howland Corners is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howland Corners
- Ithaca
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Kennedy Corner
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Kennedy Corner is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennedy Corner
- Krum Corner
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Krum Corner is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krum Corner
- Peruville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Peruville is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peruville
- Podunk
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Podunk is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Podunk
- Willow Creek
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Willow Creek is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Creek
How Far From McKinneys 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 McKinneys to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in McKinneys and extending to:
- Ithaca, which is the Seat of Tompkins County, lies just to the South.
- Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 140 miles [225.3 km]<3> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from McKinneys 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 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 248 miles [399.1 km] to the south (S). Driving would take nearly four hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 14 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,725 miles [9,213.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,443 miles [10,369 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,319 miles [6,950.8 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 McKinneys 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- McKinneys) 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 McKinneys 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 McKinneys. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.4787, Longitude: -76.5077 In this case, the coordinates for McKinneys have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.279 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.31 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.01 degrees. |
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