Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Richards, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Richards and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Richards
- 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 Richards:
- 41.663384, -83.652992
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Richards
- 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 Lucas County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Lucas County
- Since Richards is near Wood County and also Monroe County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Wood County
- eBird sighting report for Monroe 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Richards ...
We found eleven communities that share the name Richards.
Within Ohio, the name Richards is unique.
Beyond Ohio, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Barber County
- This community is historic<3> and although located in Barber County, we don't know where within the county.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Barber County community of Richards.
- Chase 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 Kansas community of Richards [Chase County].
- Kentucky
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Virginia
Curious and Interesting Names Near Richards ...
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.
- Air Line Junction
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Air Line Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Air Line Junction
- Air Line Junction is located in Lucas County
- Centennial ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Centennial have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centennial
- Centennial is located in Lucas County
- Ferndale
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast) - Frances Gardens
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Frances Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frances Gardens
- Frances Gardens is located in Wood County
- Freemans Gardens
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Freemans Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freemans Gardens
- Freemans Gardens is located in Lucas County
- Grassy Creek
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grassy Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grassy Creek
- Grassy Creek is located in Wood County
- Haven Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Haven Park have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haven Park
- Haven Park is located in Lucas County
- Holland
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Holland have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holland
- Holland is located in Lucas County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,687 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Holland <5>
- Island View
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Island View have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island View
- Island View is located in Wood County
- Liberty Corners
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Corners
- Liberty Corners is located in Monroe County (MI)
- Ranch Gardens
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ranch Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ranch Gardens
- Ranch Gardens is located in Wood County
- Sandburr Corners
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sandburr Corners have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandburr Corners
- Sandburr Corners is located in Lucas County
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- Silica
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west) - Spring Valley
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spring Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Valley
- Spring Valley is located in Lucas County
- Valley Hills
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Valley Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Hills
- Valley Hills is located in Wood County
- Vulcan
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Silica
How Far From Richards 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 Richards 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 community of Richards once stood, the straight-line distance beginning in Richards and extending to:
- Toledo, which is the Seat of Lucas County, lies just to the East.
- Columbus, which is the State Capital of Ohio, lies 121 miles [194.7 km]<2> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could drive a straight line from Richards to Columbus, with an average speed<6>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take about two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 7 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 397 miles [638.9 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take most of a day, a buggy would take 16 days and walking would take 23 days.
- The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,043 miles [9,725.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,773 miles [10,900.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,651 miles [7,485.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Lucas County: www.co.lucas.oh.us/
The official website for State of Ohio: https://ohio.gov/
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 Richards 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Richards) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Richards. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.6634, Longitude: -83.6530 In this case, the coordinates for Richards have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <3> | 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 Richards, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <5> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <6> | 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. |
| <7> | 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 Richards to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.84 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 308.346 degrees. |
| <10> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.697 degrees. |