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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 Bullards, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Bullards 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 Bullards:
- 43.149831, -124.395670
- 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 Bullards
- 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 Coos County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Coos County
- Since Bullards is near Curry County, we have provided a link to its eBird sighting report:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Curry 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 Bullards
Communities Also Named Bullards ...
We found one communities that are also named Bullards.
Within Oregon, the name Bullards is unique.
Beyond Oregon, there is another community also named Bullards in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Georgia
- Twiggs 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 Georgia community of Bullards [Twiggs County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Bullards ...
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 Point
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Cedar Point is located in Coos County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Point
- Chrome
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Chrome is located in Coos County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chrome
- Cranberry Corners
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Cranberry Corners is located in Coos County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cranberry Corners
- Dew Valley
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Dew Valley is located in Coos County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dew Valley
- Fourmile
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Fourmile is located in Coos County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourmile
- Overland
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Overland is located in Coos County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overland
- Prosper
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Prosper is located in Coos County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prosper
- Randolph
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Randolph is located in Coos County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph
- Twomile
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Twomile is located in Coos County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twomile
- Winterville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Winterville is located in Coos County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winterville
How Far From Bullards 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 Bullards to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Bullards and extending to:
- Coquille, which is the Seat of Coos County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> to the east. If you could walk a straight line from Bullards to Coquille, with an average speed<3> 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.
- Salem, which is the State Capital of Oregon, lies 140 miles [225.3 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 8 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,451 miles [3,944.5 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 96 days and walking would take 140 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,097 miles [11,421.5 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,858 miles [12,646.2 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,974 miles [9,614.2 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>'
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 Bullards 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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bullards) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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 Bullards 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 Bullards. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.1498, Longitude: -124.3957 In this case, the coordinates for Bullards have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 342.338 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 343.938 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 329.338 degrees. |
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