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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 Athboy, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Athboy 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 Athboy:
- 45.574152, -101.922643
- 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 Athboy
- 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 Corson County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Corson County
- Since Athboy is near Perkins County and also Ziebach County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Perkins County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Ziebach 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 Athboy
Curious and Interesting Names Near Athboy ...
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.
- Bison
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Black Horse
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Black Horse is located in Corson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Horse
- Chance
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Chance is located in Perkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chance
- Coal Springs
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Coal Springs is located in Perkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Springs
- Glad Valley
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Iron Lightning
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Iron Lightning is located in Ziebach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Lightning
- Estimated population in 2014: 412 people
- Lemmon
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Meadow
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Shadehill
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Summerville
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Summerville is located in Perkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerville
- Estimated population in 2014: 2,118 people
- Thunder Butte
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Thunder Butte is located in Ziebach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thunder Butte
- Thunder Hawk
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Thunder Hawk is located in Corson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thunder Hawk
How Far From Athboy 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 Athboy to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Athboy and extending to:
- McIntosh, which is the Seat of Corson County, lies 36 miles [57.9 km]<2> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Athboy to McIntosh, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take over two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just about two full days.
- Pierre, which is the State Capital of South Dakota, lies 113 miles [181.9 km] to the southeast (SE). 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 1,346 miles [2,166.2 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take about three full days, a buggy would take 53 days and walking would take 77 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,452 miles [10,383.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,217 miles [11,614.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,165 miles [8,312.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | 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- Athboy) 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 Athboy 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 Athboy. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.5742, Longitude: -101.9226 In this case, the coordinates for Athboy have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 324.613 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 323.46 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 315.375 degrees. |
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