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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 Rio Frio, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Rio Frio 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 Rio Frio:
- 29.636060, -99.736723
- 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 Rio Frio
- 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 Real County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Real County
- Since Rio Frio is near Uvalde County and also Bandera County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Uvalde County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Bandera 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 Rio Frio
Communities Also Named Rio Frio ...
We found one communities that are also named Rio Frio.
There is one other community in Texas that is also named Rio Frio.
Beyond Texas.
- Communities Located In Texas ...
- Bandera 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 Texas community of Rio Frio [Bandera County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Rio Frio ...
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.
- First Crossing
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- First Crossing is located in Uvalde County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for First Crossing
- Flatrock Crossing
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Flatrock Crossing is located in Medina County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flatrock Crossing
- Happy Hollow
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Happy Hollow is located in Uvalde County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Hollow
- Leakey
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Long Crossing
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Long Crossing is located in Uvalde County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Crossing
- Second Crossing
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Second Crossing is located in Uvalde County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Second Crossing
- Third Crossing
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Third Crossing is located in Uvalde County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Third Crossing
- Trio
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Trio is located in Uvalde County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trio
How Far From Rio Frio 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 Rio Frio to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Rio Frio and extending to:
- Leakey, which is the Seat of Real County, lies just to the North Northwest.
- Austin, which is the State Capital of Texas, lies 126 miles [202.8 km]<3> to the east northeast (ENE). If you could drive a straight line from Rio Frio to Austin, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,439 miles [2,315.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 57 days and walking would take 82 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,262 miles [11,687.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,996 miles [12,868.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,874 miles [9,453.3 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 Rio Frio 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 '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- Rio Frio) 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 Rio Frio 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 Rio Frio. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.6361, Longitude: -99.7367 In this case, the coordinates for Rio Frio have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 321.455 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 317.882 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 316.234 degrees. |
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