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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 Steuben, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Steuben 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 Steuben:
    • 41.104987, -82.685707
    • 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 Steuben
  • 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 Steuben ...

We found nine communities that share the name Steuben.

Within Ohio, the name Steuben is unique.

Beyond Ohio, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Iowa
      • Davis County
      • This Steuben is located in Davis County and lies 506 miles [814.3 km]<1> to the west of the Steuben that is located in Huron County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davis County community of Steuben.
    • Kansas
      • Jewell County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Steuben [Jewell County].
      • Leavenworth County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Steuben [Leavenworth County].
    • Maine
      • Washington County
      • This Steuben is located in Washington County and lies 780 miles [1,255.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Steuben that is located in Huron County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Steuben.
    • Michigan
      • Schoolcraft County
      • This Steuben is located in Schoolcraft County and lies 398 miles [640.5 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Steuben that is located in Huron County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Schoolcraft County community of Steuben.
    • New York
      • Oneida County
      • This Steuben is located in Oneida County and lies 408 miles [656.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Steuben that is located in Huron County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Oneida County community of Steuben.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Lycoming County
      • This Steuben is located in Lycoming County and lies 287 miles [461.9 km]<1> to the east of the Steuben that is located in Huron County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lycoming County community of Steuben.
      • Northampton County
      • This Steuben is located in Northampton County and lies 382 miles [614.8 km] to the east of the Steuben that is located in Huron County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Northampton County community of Steuben.
    • Wisconsin
      • Crawford County
      • This Steuben is located in Crawford County and lies 442 miles [711.3 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Steuben that is located in Huron County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Crawford County community of Steuben.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Steuben ...

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.

  • Celeryville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Celeryville
    • Celeryville is located in Huron County
  • Delphi
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delphi
    • Delphi is located in Huron County
  • Forest ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forest have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest
    • Forest is located in Richland County
  • Frank
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Frank have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frank
    • Frank is located in Seneca County
  • Greenwich
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Havana
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Havana have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havana
    • Havana is located in Huron County
  • Hunts Corners
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunts Corners
    • Hunts Corners is located in Huron County
    • Hunts Corners has also been known as:
    • Moorehead
  • Peru
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peru have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peru
    • Peru is located in Huron County
  • Plymouth
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymouth
    • Plymouth is located in Richland County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,789 people
  • Reedtown
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reedtown have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reedtown
    • Reedtown is located in Seneca County
  • Relief ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Relief have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Relief
    • Relief is located in Huron County
  • Standardsburg
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Standardsburg have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Standardsburg
    • Standardsburg is located in Huron County
  • Weavers Corners
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Weavers Corners have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weavers Corners
    • Weavers Corners is located in Huron County

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Steuben and extending to:

  • Norwalk, which is the Seat of Huron County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the north northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Steuben to Norwalk, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
  • Columbus, which is the State Capital of Ohio, lies 79 miles [127.1 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 335 miles [539.1 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 19 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,031 miles [9,706 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,757 miles [10,874.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,634 miles [7,457.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Steuben. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Huron County: www.hccommissioners.com/

The official website for State of Ohio: https://ohio.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>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- Steuben) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Steuben. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.1050, Longitude: -82.6857    
<2>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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Steuben 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.
<3>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.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.
<6>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 Steuben to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.241 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.582 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.427 degrees.









 

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