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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 Butterfield, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Butterfield and the surrounding area.

  • Weather ...
  • 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 Butterfield:
    • 31.834831, -106.095811
    • 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 Butterfield
  • 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 El Paso County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for El Paso County
    • Since Butterfield is near Hudspeth County and also Otero County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Hudspeth County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Otero 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 Butterfield

Communities Also Named Butterfield ...

We found ten communities that are also named Butterfield.

Within Texas, the name Butterfield is unique.

Beyond Texas, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Hot Spring County
      • This Butterfield is located in Hot Spring County and lies 787 miles [1,266.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Butterfield that is located in El Paso County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hot Spring County community of Butterfield.
    • Illinois
      • DuPage County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Illinois community of Butterfield [DuPage County].
    • Maine
      • Franklin County
      • This community is historic<3> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maine community of Butterfield [Franklin County].
    • Maryland
      • Frederick County
      • This Butterfield is located in Frederick County and lies 1,691 miles [2,721.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Butterfield that is located in El Paso County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of Butterfield.
    • Michigan
      • Missaukee County
      • This Butterfield is located in Missaukee County and lies 1,427 miles [2,296.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Butterfield that is located in El Paso County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Missaukee County community of Butterfield.
    • Minnesota
      • Watonwan County
      • This Butterfield is located in Watonwan County and lies 1,037 miles [1,668.9 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Butterfield that is located in El Paso County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Watonwan County community of Butterfield.
    • Missouri
      • Barry County
      • This Butterfield is located in Barry County and lies 772 miles [1,242.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Butterfield that is located in El Paso County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Barry County community of Butterfield.
    • New York
      • Oneida County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the New York community of Butterfield [Oneida County].
    • Oregon
      • Clatsop County
      • This Butterfield is located in Clatsop County and lies 1,364 miles [2,195.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Butterfield that is located in El Paso County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clatsop County community of Butterfield.
    • Virginia
      • Stafford County
      • This Butterfield is located in Stafford County and lies 1,670 miles [2,687.6 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Butterfield that is located in El Paso County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Stafford County community of Butterfield.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Butterfield ...

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
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Alfalfa is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alfalfa
  • Coyote Place
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Coyote Place is located in Hudspeth County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyote Place
  • Dairyland
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Dairyland is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dairyland
    • Dairyland has also been known as:
    • Dairyland Colonia
  • Desert Glen
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Desert Glen is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Desert Glen
    • Desert Glen has also been known as:
    • Desert Glen Colonia
  • Ellen Park
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Ellen Park is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellen Park
    • Ellen Park has also been known as:
    • Ellen Park Colonia
  • Horizon City
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Quail Mesa
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Quail Mesa is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Mesa
    • Quail Mesa has also been known as:
    • Quail Mesa Colonia
  • Roseville
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Roseville is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roseville
    • Roseville has also been known as:
    • Roseville Colonia
  • Sparks
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Sparks is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sparks
  • Sunshine
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Sunshine is located in El Paso County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine
    • Sunshine has also been known as:
    • Sunshine Colonia

How Far From Butterfield 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 Butterfield to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Butterfield and extending to:

  • El Paso, which is the Seat of El Paso County, lies 23 miles [37 km]<1> to the west southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Butterfield to El Paso, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
  • Austin, which is the State Capital of Texas, lies 505 miles [812.7 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just over a day, a buggy would take 20 days and walking would take 29 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,699 miles [2,734.3 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 67 days and walking would take 97 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,362 miles [11,848 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 8,116 miles [13,061.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 6,016 miles [9,681.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Butterfield) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 Butterfield 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.
<3>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 Butterfield, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Butterfield 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 Butterfield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.8348, Longitude: -106.0958       In this case, the coordinates for Butterfield have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 326.336 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 323.965 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 319.11 degrees.