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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 Clayton, we use the following websites to find information relevant to East Clayton 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 East Clayton:
    • 39.454514, -82.270428
    • 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 Clayton
  • 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 Athens County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Athens County
    • Since East Clayton is near Hocking County and also Vinton County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Hocking County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Vinton 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 Clayton

Communities Also Named East Clayton ...

We found one communities that are also named East Clayton.

Within Ohio, the name East Clayton is unique.

Beyond Ohio, there is another community also named East Clayton in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Iowa
      • Clayton 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 Iowa community of East Clayton [Clayton County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near East Clayton ...

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.

  • Candy Town
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Candy Town is located in Hocking County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Candy Town
  • Carbon Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Carbon Hill is located in Hocking County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbon Hill
  • Carbondale
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Carbondale is located in Athens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbondale
  • Coonville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Coonville is located in Hocking County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coonville
  • Goose Run ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Goose Run is located in Athens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goose Run
  • Hocking ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Hocking is located in Athens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hocking
  • Jobs
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jobs is located in Hocking County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jobs
  • Monday
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Monday is located in Hocking County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monday
  • Sand Run
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Sand Run is located in Hocking County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Run
  • Sand Run Junction
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Sand Run Junction is located in Hocking County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Run Junction
  • Union Furnace
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Union Furnace is located in Hocking County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Furnace

How Far From East Clayton 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 East Clayton to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in East Clayton and extending to:

  • Athens, which is the Seat of Athens County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<2> to the southeast. If you could walk a straight line from East Clayton to Athens, with an average speed<3> 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 52 miles [83.7 km] to the northwest (NW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take over two days and walking would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 282 miles [453.8 km] to the east (E). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 16 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,089 miles [9,799.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,809 miles [10,958 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,684 miles [7,538.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 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 East Clayton 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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- East Clayton) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<4>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 Clayton 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 Clayton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.4545, Longitude: -82.2704       In this case, the coordinates for East Clayton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.029 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.096 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.786 degrees.