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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 Four Mile Crossing, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Four Mile Crossing 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 Four Mile Crossing:
- 34.686182, -98.445333
- 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 Four Mile Crossing
- 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 Comanche County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Comanche County
- Since Four Mile Crossing is near Caddo County and also Cotton County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Caddo County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Cotton 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 Four Mile Crossing
Communities Also Named Four Mile Crossing ...
We found one communities that are also named Four Mile Crossing.
Within Oklahoma, the name Four Mile Crossing is unique.
Beyond Oklahoma, there is another community also named Four Mile Crossing in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
- Saint Clair 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 Illinois community of Four Mile Crossing [Saint Clair County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Four Mile Crossing ...
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.
- Cache
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Cache Wye
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Cache Wye is located in Comanche County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cache Wye
- Corral Crossing
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Corral Crossing is located in Comanche County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corral Crossing
- Edgewater Park
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Edgewater Park is located in Comanche County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewater Park
- Geronimo
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Medicine Park
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Peachtree Crossing
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Peachtree Crossing is located in Comanche County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peachtree Crossing
- Porter Hill
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Porter Hill is located in Comanche County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter Hill
- Pumpkin Center ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Pumpkin Center is located in Comanche County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pumpkin Center
How Far From Four Mile Crossing 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 Four Mile Crossing to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Four Mile Crossing and extending to:
- Lawton, which is the Seat of Comanche County, lies just to the South Southeast.
- Oklahoma City, which is the State Capital of Oklahoma, lies 75 miles [120.7 km]<3> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Four Mile Crossing to Oklahoma City, 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 5 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 1,215 miles [1,955.4 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take about three full days, a buggy would take 48 days and walking would take 69 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,942 miles [11,172.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,685 miles [12,367.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,571 miles [8,965.7 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 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 Four Mile Crossing 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 'straight-line' (or 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- Four Mile Crossing) 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 Four Mile Crossing 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 Four Mile Crossing. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6862, Longitude: -98.4453 In this case, the coordinates for Four Mile Crossing have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 321.292 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 318.311 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 315.203 degrees. |
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