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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 Lord, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Lord 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 Lord:
- 36.361698, -100.888763
- 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 Lord
- 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 Ochiltree County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Ochiltree County
- Since Lord is near Beaver County and also Texas County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Beaver County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Texas 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 Lord
Communities Also Named Lord ...
We found one communities that are also named Lord.
Within Texas, the name Lord is unique.
Beyond Texas, there is another community also named Lord in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Maryland
- Allegany 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 Maryland community of Lord [Allegany County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Lord ...
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.
- Booker
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Bryans Corner
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Bryans Corner is located in Beaver County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryans Corner
- Gray
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Gray is located in Beaver County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray
- Range
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Range is located in Texas County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Range
- Spearman
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Twin Grove
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Twin Grove is located in Lipscomb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Grove
How Far From Lord 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 Lord to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Lord and extending to:
- Perryton, which is the Seat of Ochiltree County, lies just to the East Northeast.
- Austin, which is the State Capital of Texas, lies 458 miles [737.1 km]<3> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could drive a straight line from Lord to Austin, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 26 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 18 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,312 miles [2,111.5 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take about three full days, a buggy would take 52 days and walking would take 75 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,935 miles [11,160.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,687 miles [12,371 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,584 miles [8,986.6 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 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 Lord 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lord) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Lord 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 Lord. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.3617, Longitude: -100.8888 In this case, the coordinates for Lord have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 323.193 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 320.745 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 316.202 degrees. |
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