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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 Yankeetown, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Yankeetown and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Yankeetown:
    • 39.242565, -83.056848
    • 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 Yankeetown
  • 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 Yankeetown ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Yankeetown.

There are four communities within Ohio that are also named Yankeetown.

Beyond Ohio, we know of another seven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these seven communities, ten are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Ohio ...
    • Brown County
      • This Yankeetown is located in Brown County and lies 55 miles [88.5 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Yankeetown that is located in Ross County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brown County community of Yankeetown.
    • Darke County
      • This Yankeetown is located in Darke County and lies 100 miles [160.9 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Yankeetown that is located in Ross County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Darke County community of Yankeetown.
    • Fayette County
      • This Yankeetown is located in Fayette County and lies 31 miles [49.9 km]<1> to the north northwest of the Yankeetown that is located in Ross County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Yankeetown.
    • Tuscarawas County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Yankeetown [Tuscarawas County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Florida
      • Levy County
      • This Yankeetown is located in Levy County and lies 705 miles [1,134.6 km]<1> to the south of the Yankeetown that is located in Ross County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Levy County community of Yankeetown.
    • Illinois
      • Woodford County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Yankeetown [Woodford County].
    • Indiana
      • Warrick County
      • This Yankeetown is located in Warrick County and lies 246 miles [395.9 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Yankeetown that is located in Ross County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warrick County community of Yankeetown.
    • Minnesota
      • Big Stone County
      • This Yankeetown is located in Big Stone County and lies 818 miles [1,316.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Yankeetown that is located in Ross County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Big Stone County community of Yankeetown.
    • Nova Scotia
      • This Yankeetown lies 1,051 miles [1,691.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Yankeetown that is located in Ross County.
    • Tennessee
      • White County
      • This Yankeetown is located in White County and lies 259 miles [416.8 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Yankeetown that is located in Ross County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the White County community of Yankeetown.
    • Virginia
      • Rockingham County
      • This Yankeetown is located in Rockingham County and lies 223 miles [358.9 km]<1> to the east of the Yankeetown that is located in Ross County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rockingham County community of Yankeetown.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Yankeetown ...

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.

  • Deadman Crossing
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deadman Crossing
    • Deadman Crossing is located in Ross County
  • Harris
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harris have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris
    • Harris is located in Ross County
  • Hills ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hills
    • Hills is located in Pike County
  • Knockemstiff ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knockemstiff
    • Knockemstiff is located in Ross County
  • Peck
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peck
    • Peck is located in Pike County
  • Pleasant Grove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pleasant Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Grove
    • Pleasant Grove is located in Ross County
  • Randall Terrace
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Randall Terrace have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randall Terrace
    • Randall Terrace is located in Ross County
  • Slate Mills
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Slate Mills have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slate Mills
    • Slate Mills is located in Ross County
  • Storms
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Storms have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Storms
    • Storms is located in Ross County
  • Summithill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Summithill. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summithill
    • Summithill is located in Ross County
  • Three Locks
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Three Locks have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Locks
    • Three Locks is located in Ross County

How Far From Yankeetown to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Yankeetown to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Chillicothe, which is the Seat of Ross County, lies just to the North Northeast.
  • Columbus, which is the State Capital of Ohio, lies 50 miles [80.5 km]<1> to the north (N). If you could walk a straight line from Yankeetown to Columbus, with an average speed<6> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of two days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 323 miles [519.8 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take five to six hours, a buggy would take 13 days and walking would take 19 days.
  • The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,131 miles [9,866.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,851 miles [11,025.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,727 miles [7,607.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>

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

The official website for Ross County: www.co.ross.oh.us/

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Yankeetown) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Yankeetown. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.2426, Longitude: -83.0568       In this case, the coordinates for Yankeetown have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Yankeetown, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 Yankeetown 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.
<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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<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 Yankeetown 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 311.521 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 307.626 degrees.
<10>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.206 degrees.




 

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