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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 Powell Butte, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Powell Butte 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 Powell Butte:
- 44.24762, -121.017968
- 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 Powell Butte
- 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 Crook County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Crook County
- Since Powell Butte is near Deschutes County and also Jefferson County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Deschutes County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Jefferson 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 Powell Butte
Communities Also Named Powell Butte ...
We found one communities that are also named Powell Butte.
There is one other community in Oregon that is also named Powell Butte.
Beyond Oregon.
- Communities Located In Oregon ...
- Multnomah 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 Oregon community of Powell Butte [Multnomah County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Powell Butte ...
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.
- Alfalfa
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Cloverdale
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Cloverdale is located in Deschutes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
- Forest Crossing
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Forest Crossing is located in Crook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Crossing
- Geneva ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Grandview ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Grizzly
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Grizzly is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grizzly
- Lower Bridge ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Lower Bridge is located in Deschutes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Bridge
- Opal City
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Opal City is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opal City
- Plainview
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Plainview is located in Deschutes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
How Far From Powell Butte 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 Powell Butte to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Powell Butte and extending to:
- Prineville, which is the Seat of Crook County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> to the east northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Powell Butte to Prineville, 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.
- Salem, which is the State Capital of Oregon, lies 109 miles [175.4 km] to the west northwest (WNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,274 miles [3,659.6 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 89 days and walking would take 130 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,970 miles [11,217.1 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,735 miles [12,448.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,821 miles [9,368 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<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 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 Powell Butte 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Powell Butte) 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 Powell Butte 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 Powell Butte. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.2476, Longitude: -121.0180 |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 339.594 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 340.76 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.124 degrees. |
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