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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 Custaloga, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Custaloga 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 Custaloga:
- 40.670615, -82.072651
- 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 Custaloga
- 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 Wayne County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Wayne County
- Since Custaloga is near Holmes County and also Ashland County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Holmes County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Ashland 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 Custaloga
Curious and Interesting Names Near Custaloga ...
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 Prairie
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Centerville
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Centerville is located in Wayne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
- Funk
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Funk is located in Wayne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Funk
- Hard
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Hard is located in Holmes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hard
- Lake Fork
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Lake Fork is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Fork
- Lakeville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Miley Crossroads
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Miley Crossroads is located in Holmes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miley Crossroads
- Mohicanville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Mohicanville is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mohicanville
- Paint Valley
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Paint Valley is located in Holmes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paint Valley
- Stringtown
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Stringtown is located in Wayne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stringtown
How Far From Custaloga to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Custaloga to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic<2> community of Custaloga once stood, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Custaloga and extending to:
- Wooster, which is the Seat of Wayne County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Custaloga to Wooster, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
- Columbus, which is the State Capital of Ohio, lies 68 miles [109.4 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take about three full days and walking would take three full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 293 miles [471.5 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 12 days and walking would take 17 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,026 miles [9,697.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,750 miles [10,863.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,626 miles [7,444.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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 Custaloga, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <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- Custaloga) 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 Custaloga 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 Custaloga. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6706, Longitude: -82.0727 In this case, the coordinates for Custaloga have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.869 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.095 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.29 degrees. |
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