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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 Grooms, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Grooms 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 Grooms:
    • 39.020348, -83.275187
    • 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 Grooms
  • 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 Adams County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Adams County
    • Since Grooms is near Pike County and also Scioto County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Pike County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Scioto 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 Grooms

Communities Also Named Grooms ...

We found one communities that are also named Grooms.

Within Ohio, the name Grooms is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Kentucky
      • Montgomery 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 Kentucky community of Grooms [Montgomery County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Grooms ...

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.

  • Bacon Flat
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Bacon Flat is located in Adams County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bacon Flat
  • Beaver Pond
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Beaver Pond is located in Adams County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Pond
  • Cedar Fork
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Cedar Fork is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Fork
  • Duke
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Duke is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duke
  • Elm Grove ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Elm Grove is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elm Grove
  • Hatch
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Hatch is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatch
  • Jaybird
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Jaybird is located in Adams County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jaybird
  • Ladd
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Ladd is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ladd
  • Locust Grove
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Locust Grove is located in Adams County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Grove
  • Poplar Grove
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Poplar Grove is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Grove
  • Smoky Corners
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Smoky Corners is located in Adams County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smoky Corners

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

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

  • West Union, which is the Seat of Adams County, lies 21 miles [33.8 km]<2> to the southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Grooms to West Union, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day 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 67 miles [107.8 km] to the north northeast (NNE). 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 335 miles [539.1 km] to the east (E). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 19 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,149 miles [9,895.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,870 miles [11,056.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,745 miles [7,636.3 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 Grooms 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 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Grooms) 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 Grooms 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 Grooms. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.0203, Longitude: -83.2752       In this case, the coordinates for Grooms have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.66 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.752 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.373 degrees.