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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 Cimarron City, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Cimarron City 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 Cimarron City:
- 35.888575, -97.603064
- 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 Cimarron City
- 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 Logan County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Logan County
- Since Cimarron City is near Kingfisher County and also Oklahoma County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Kingfisher County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Oklahoma 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 Cimarron City
Communities Also Named Cimarron City ...
We found one communities that are also named Cimarron City.
There is one other community in Oklahoma that is also named Cimarron City.
Beyond Oklahoma.
- Communities Located In Oklahoma ...
- Payne 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 Oklahoma community of Cimarron City [Payne County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Cimarron City ...
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.
- Cedar Valley
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Cedar Valley is located in Logan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Valley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 325 people
- Crescent
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Crescent Springs
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Crescent Springs is located in Logan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Springs
- Indian Springs
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Indian Springs is located in Logan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Springs
- Lakeview
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Twin Lakes
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Twin Lakes is located in Kingfisher County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Lakes
- Union
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Union is located in Kingfisher County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
- Zion ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Zion is located in Kingfisher County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zion
How Far From Cimarron City 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 town such as Cimarron City to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Cimarron City and extending to:
- Guthrie, which is the Seat of Logan County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> to the east. If you could walk a straight line from Cimarron City to Guthrie, with an average speed<4> 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.
- Oklahoma City, which is the State Capital of Oklahoma, lies 29 miles [46.7 km] to the south (S). The buggy would take just over a day and walking would take just about two full days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,144 miles [1,841.1 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take over two days, a buggy would take 45 days and walking would take 65 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,848 miles [11,020.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,592 miles [12,218.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,479 miles [8,817.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
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 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 Cimarron City 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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- Cimarron City) 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 Cimarron City 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 Cimarron City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8886, Longitude: -97.6031 In this case, the coordinates for Cimarron City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 320.843 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 317.933 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 314.652 degrees. |
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