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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 Piatt, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Piatt 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 Piatt:
- 41.551351, -76.715612
- 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 Piatt
- 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 Sullivan County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Sullivan County
- Since Piatt is near Bradford County and also Lycoming County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Bradford County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lycoming 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 Piatt
Communities Also Named Piatt ...
We found three communities that are also named Piatt.
Within Pennsylvania, the name Piatt is unique.
Beyond Pennsylvania, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Illinois
- Piatt County
- This Piatt is located in Piatt County and lies 627 miles [1,009.1 km]<1> to the west of the Piatt that is located in Sullivan County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Piatt County community of Piatt.
- Oklahoma
- Tulsa County
- This community is historic<2> and although located in Tulsa County, we don't know where within the county.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tulsa County community of Piatt.
- West Virginia
- Kanawha County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Piatt [Kanawha County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Piatt ...
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.
- Carbon
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Carbon is located in Bradford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbon
- Cold Spring
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Cold Spring is located in Bradford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Spring
- Forksville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Grover
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Grover is located in Bradford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grover
- Hillsgrove
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Leroy
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Leroy is located in Bradford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leroy
- Lincoln Falls
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Maple Summit
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Maple Summit is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Summit
- Minerville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Minerville is located in Bradford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minerville
How Far From Piatt 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 Piatt to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Piatt and extending to:
- Laporte, which is the Seat of Sullivan County, lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<1> to the southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Piatt to Laporte, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
- Harrisburg, which is the State Capital of Pennsylvania, lies 87 miles [140 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 184 miles [296.1 km] to the south (S). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 11 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,772 miles [9,289.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,487 miles [10,439.8 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,363 miles [7,021.6 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<9>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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- Piatt) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <2> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Piatt, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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 Piatt 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. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | 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 Piatt 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 Piatt. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.5514, Longitude: -76.7156 In this case, the coordinates for Piatt have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 307.494 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.406 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 303.503 degrees. |
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