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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 Three Legs Town, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Three Legs Town 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 Three Legs Town:
- 40.427288, -81.369001
- 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 Three Legs Town
- 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 Tuscarawas County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Tuscarawas County
- Since Three Legs Town is near Harrison County and also Carroll County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Harrison County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Carroll 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 Three Legs Town
Curious and Interesting Names Near Three Legs Town ...
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.
- Dover
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Egypt ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Egypt is located in Tuscarawas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egypt
- Elm ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Elm is located in Tuscarawas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elm
- Feed Springs
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Feed Springs is located in Harrison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Feed Springs
- Joyce
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Joyce is located in Tuscarawas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joyce
- Leesville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Leesville is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leesville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 143 people
- Lock Seventeen
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Lock Seventeen is located in Tuscarawas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lock Seventeen
- New England ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- New England is located in Tuscarawas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New England
- New Philadelphia
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Reeds Run
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Reeds Run is located in Tuscarawas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reeds Run
- Riverside Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Riverside Park is located in Tuscarawas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside Park
- Rock
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Rock is located in Tuscarawas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- Royal Lane Park
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Royal Lane Park is located in Tuscarawas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal Lane Park
- Rush
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Rush is located in Tuscarawas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rush
- Stillwater
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Stillwater is located in Tuscarawas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stillwater
- Willow Glen
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Willow Glen is located in Tuscarawas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Glen
- Yankeetown ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Yankeetown is located in Tuscarawas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yankeetown
How Far From Three Legs Town 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 Three Legs Town 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<2> community of Three Legs Town once stood, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Three Legs Town and extending to:
- New Philadelphia, which is the Seat of Tuscarawas County, lies just to the Northwest.
- Columbus, which is the State Capital of Ohio, lies 91 miles [146.5 km]<3> to the west southwest (WSW). If you could drive a straight line from Three Legs Town to Columbus, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than two hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 6 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of three days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 253 miles [407.2 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 15 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,009 miles [9,670.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,731 miles [10,832.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,606 miles [7,412.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | 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 Three Legs Town, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Three Legs Town) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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 Three Legs Town 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 Three Legs Town. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.4273, Longitude: -81.3690 In this case, the coordinates for Three Legs Town have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.438 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.569 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.051 degrees. |
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