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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 Stone Mills, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Stone Mills 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 Stone Mills:
- 44.114498, -75.973823
- 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 Stone Mills
- 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 Jefferson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Jefferson County
- Since Stone Mills is near Lewis County and also Saint Lawrence County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lewis County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Saint Lawrence 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 Stone Mills
Communities Also Named Stone Mills ...
We found two communities that are also named Stone Mills.
Within New York, the name Stone Mills is unique.
Beyond New York, we know of two communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these two communities, one is located in the United States and the other in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Ontario
- We haven't found the location of this community yet.
- Texas
- Panola 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 Texas community of Stone Mills [Panola County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Stone Mills ...
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.
- Calcium
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Douglas Crossing
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Douglas Crossing is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Douglas Crossing
- Dutch Settlement
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Dutch Settlement is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutch Settlement
- Evans Mills
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Glen Park
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Glen Park is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Park
- Population from the 2020 Census: 462 people
- Limerick
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Orleans Four Corners
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Orleans Four Corners is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orleans Four Corners
- Paddy Hill
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Paddy Hill is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paddy Hill
- Perch River
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Perch River is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perch River
How Far From Stone Mills 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 Stone Mills to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Stone Mills and extending to:
- Watertown, which is the Seat of Jefferson County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Stone Mills to Watertown, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
- Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 149 miles [239.8 km] to the southeast (SE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 9 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 364 miles [585.8 km] to the south (S). Driving would take 6 hours, a buggy would take 15 days and walking would take 21 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,635 miles [9,068.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,359 miles [10,233.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,235 miles [6,815.6 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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Stone Mills 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- Stone Mills) 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 Stone Mills 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 Stone Mills. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.1145, Longitude: -75.9738 In this case, the coordinates for Stone Mills have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 306.767 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 302.999 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 302.02 degrees. |
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