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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 Wrights Corners, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Wrights Corners 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 Wrights Corners:
    • 43.222448, -78.676912
    • 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 Wrights Corners
  • 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 Niagara County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Niagara County
    • Since Wrights Corners is near Erie County and also Orleans County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Erie County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Orleans 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 Wrights Corners

Communities Also Named Wrights Corners ...

We found five communities that are also named Wrights Corners.

There is one other community in New York that is also named Wrights Corners.

Beyond New York, we know of four communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In New York ...
    • Onondaga County
      • This Wrights Corners is located in Onondaga County and lies 116 miles [186.7 km]<1> to the east of the Wrights Corners that is located in Niagara County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Onondaga County community of Wrights Corners.
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Michigan
      • Calhoun County
      • This Wrights Corners is located in Calhoun County and lies 326 miles [524.6 km]<1> to the west of the Wrights Corners that is located in Niagara County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Calhoun County community of Wrights Corners.
    • Ontario
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Wrights Corners.
    • Pennsylvania
      • McKean County
      • This Wrights Corners is located in McKean County and lies 93 miles [149.7 km]<1> to the south of the Wrights Corners that is located in Niagara County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the McKean County community of Wrights Corners.
    • Wisconsin
      • Trempealeau County
      • This Wrights Corners is located in Trempealeau County and lies 640 miles [1,030 km]<1> to the west of the Wrights Corners that is located in Niagara County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Trempealeau County community of Wrights Corners.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Wrights Corners ...

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.

How Far From Wrights Corners 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 Wrights Corners to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Wrights Corners and extending to:

  • Lockport, which is the Seat of Niagara County, lies just to the South Southwest.
  • Albany, which is the State Capital of New York, lies 251 miles [403.9 km]<1> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Wrights Corners to Albany, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take nearly four hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 15 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 10 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 310 miles [498.9 km] to the south southeast (SSE). 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 5,780 miles [9,302 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,505 miles [10,468.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,382 miles [7,052.1 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>'

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Wrights Corners) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 Wrights Corners 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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Wrights Corners 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 Wrights Corners. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.2224, Longitude: -78.6769    
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.571 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 304.885 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.724 degrees.