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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 Crooks, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Crooks 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 Crooks:
- 43.660253, -96.807552
- 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 Crooks
- 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 Minnehaha County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Minnehaha County
- Since Crooks is near Lincoln County and also Lake County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lincoln County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lake 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 Crooks
Communities Also Named Crooks ...
We found four communities that are also named Crooks.
Within South Dakota, the name Crooks is unique.
Beyond South Dakota, we know of four communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these four communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Iowa
- Page 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 Iowa community of Crooks [Page County].
- Kentucky
- Bath 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 Kentucky community of Crooks [Bath County].
- Ontario
- This Crooks lies 464 miles [746.7 km]<2> to the northeast of the Crooks that is located in Minnehaha County.
- Oregon
- Union County
- This Crooks is located in Union County and lies 1,041 miles [1,675.3 km]<2> to the west northwest of the Crooks that is located in Minnehaha County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Crooks.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Crooks ...
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.
- Baltic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Chester
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Dell Rapids
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Harrisburg
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Humboldt
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Lyons
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Pumpkin Center
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Pumpkin Center is located in Minnehaha County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pumpkin Center
- Estimated population in 2014: 13 people
- Skyline Heights
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Skyline Heights is located in Minnehaha County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skyline Heights
- Split Rock Heights
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Split Rock Heights is located in Minnehaha County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Split Rock Heights
- Estimated population in 2014: 216 people
- Tea
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Valley Springs
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
How Far From Crooks 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 city such as Crooks to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Crooks and extending to:
- Sioux Falls, which is the Seat of Minnehaha County, lies just to the South Southeast.
- Pierre, which is the State Capital of South Dakota, lies 182 miles [292.9 km]<2> to the west northwest (WNW). If you could drive a straight line from Crooks to Pierre, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take a little over three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 11 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 8 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,074 miles [1,728.4 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take over two days, a buggy would take 42 days and walking would take 61 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,405 miles [10,307.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,162 miles [11,526.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,077 miles [8,170.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Crooks 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Crooks) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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 Crooks 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 Crooks. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.6603, Longitude: -96.8076 In this case, the coordinates for Crooks have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 320.798 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 318.85 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 312.889 degrees. |
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