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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.

  • 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 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.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Four Mile Crossing
  • 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 Four Mile Crossing ...

We found one communities that share the name 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)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cache have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cache
    • Cache is located in Comanche County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,824 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cache <3>
  • Cache Wye
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cache Wye have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cache Wye
    • Cache Wye is located in Comanche County
  • Corral Crossing
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Corral Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corral Crossing
    • Corral Crossing is located in Comanche County
  • Edgewater Park
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Edgewater Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewater Park
    • Edgewater Park is located in Comanche County
  • Geronimo
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Geronimo have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geronimo
    • Geronimo is located in Comanche County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,225 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Geronimo <3>
  • Medicine Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Medicine Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medicine Park
    • Medicine Park is located in Comanche County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 461 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Medicine Park <3>
  • Peachtree Crossing
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peachtree Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peachtree Crossing
    • Peachtree Crossing is located in Comanche County
  • Porter Hill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Porter Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter Hill
    • Porter Hill is located in Comanche County
  • Pumpkin Center ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Pumpkin Center. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pumpkin Center
    • Pumpkin Center is located in Comanche County

How Far From Four Mile Crossing 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 Four Mile Crossing to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<5> 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]<5> to the northeast (NE). If you could drive a straight line from Four Mile Crossing to Oklahoma City, with an average speed<6>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<7> 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).<8>
  • 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).<9>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,571 miles [8,965.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>

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

The official website for State of Oklahoma: https://www.ok.gov/

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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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>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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Four Mile Crossing) to Point B.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>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 Four Mile Crossing 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 321.292 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 318.311 degrees.
<10>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 315.203 degrees.




 

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