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 Stockdale:
38.956462, -82.858227
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 Stockdale
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 Pike County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found eleven communities that are also named Stockdale.
Within Ohio, the name Stockdale is unique.
Beyond Ohio, we know of eleven communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and three are in Canada.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Alabama
Talladega County
This Stockdale is located in Talladega County and lies 420 miles [675.9 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Stockdale that is located in Pike County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Talladega County community of Stockdale.
California
Kern 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 California community of Stockdale [Kern County].
Delaware
New Castle County
This Stockdale is located in New Castle County and lies 399 miles [642.1 km]<1> to the east of the Stockdale that is located in Pike County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the New Castle County community of Stockdale.
Illinois
Grundy County
This Stockdale is located in Grundy County and lies 340 miles [547.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Stockdale that is located in Pike County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Grundy County community of Stockdale.
Indiana
Wabash County
This Stockdale is located in Wabash County and lies 212 miles [341.2 km]<1> to the northwest of the Stockdale that is located in Pike County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wabash County community of Stockdale.
Kansas
Riley 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 Stockdale [Riley County].
Mississippi
Hancock 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 Mississippi community of Stockdale [Hancock County].
Missouri
Clay County
This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Stockdale [Clay County].
Ontario
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 Ontario community of Stockdale.
Pennsylvania
Washington County
This Stockdale is located in Washington County and lies 176 miles [283.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Stockdale that is located in Pike County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Stockdale.
Texas
Wilson County
This Stockdale is located in Wilson County and lies 1,091 miles [1,755.8 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Stockdale that is located in Pike County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wilson County community of Stockdale.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Stockdale ...
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.
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 Stockdale to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Stockdale and extending to:
Waverly City, which is the Seat of Pike County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> to the north northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Stockdale to Waverly City, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
Columbus, which is the State Capital of Ohio, lies 70 miles [112.7 km] to the north (N). 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 312 miles [502.1 km] to the east (E). Driving would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 18 days.
The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,136 miles [9,874.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,855 miles [11,032.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,730 miles [7,612.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Stockdale) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 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 Stockdale 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>
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 Stockdale, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Stockdale 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 Stockdale. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.9565, Longitude: -82.8582 In this case, the coordinates for Stockdale have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 311.402 degrees.
<8>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.448 degrees.
<9>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.207 degrees.