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 Firesteel:
45.425609, -101.285332
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 Firesteel
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 Dewey County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
We found one communities that are also named Firesteel.
Within South Dakota, the name Firesteel is unique.
Beyond South Dakota, there is another community also named Firesteel in the United States.
Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
Michigan
Ontonagon County
This Firesteel is located in Ontonagon County and lies 585 miles [941.5 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Firesteel that is located in Dewey County.
For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ontonagon County community of Firesteel.
Curious and Interesting Names Near Firesteel ...
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.
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 Firesteel to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Firesteel and extending to:
Timber Lake, which is the Seat of Dewey County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<1> to the east. If you could walk a straight line from Firesteel to Timber Lake, 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.
Pierre, which is the State Capital of South Dakota, lies 86 miles [138.4 km] to the south southeast (SSE). 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 1,314 miles [2,114.7 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take about three full days, a buggy would take 52 days and walking would take 75 days.
The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,443 miles [10,369 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,207 miles [11,598.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,151 miles [8,289.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
<1>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Firesteel) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
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While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Firesteel 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 Firesteel. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.4256, Longitude: -101.2853
<5>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 324.132 degrees.
<6>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 322.891 degrees.
<7>
The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 315.036 degrees.