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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 East Alliance, we use the following websites to find information relevant to East Alliance 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 East Alliance:
- 40.913392, -81.078429
- 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 East Alliance
- 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 Mahoning County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Mahoning County
- Since East Alliance is near Stark County and also Columbiana County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Stark County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Columbiana 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 East Alliance
Communities Also Named East Alliance ...
We found one communities that are also named East Alliance.
Within Ohio, the name East Alliance is unique.
Beyond Ohio, there is another community also named East Alliance in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- North Carolina
- Pamlico 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 North Carolina community of East Alliance [Pamlico County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near East Alliance ...
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.
- Alliance
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Alliance Junction
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Alliance Junction is located in Mahoning County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alliance Junction
- Bolton
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Bolton is located in Stark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolton
- Christytown
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Christytown is located in Mahoning County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christytown
- Damascus
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Freeburg
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Freeburg is located in Stark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeburg
- Harrisburg
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Harrisburg is located in Stark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrisburg
- Hillcrest
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Hillcrest is located in Stark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillcrest
- Homeworth
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Maple Ridge
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Maple Ridge is located in Mahoning County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Ridge
- Reading
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Reading is located in Columbiana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reading
- Valley
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Valley is located in Columbiana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley
How Far From East Alliance 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 community such as East Alliance to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in East Alliance and extending to:
- Youngstown, which is the Seat of Mahoning County, lies 25 miles [40.2 km]<3> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from East Alliance to Youngstown, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
- Columbus, which is the State Capital of Ohio, lies 119 miles [191.5 km] to the west southwest (WSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 255 miles [410.4 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 15 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,976 miles [9,617.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,698 miles [10,779.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,574 miles [7,361.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<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 East Alliance 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- East Alliance) 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 East Alliance 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 East Alliance. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.9134, Longitude: -81.0784 In this case, the coordinates for East Alliance have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.236 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.412 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.747 degrees. |
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