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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 Beaverdam, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Beaverdam 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 Beaverdam:
    • 41.808549, -112.056794
    • 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.
    • The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Beaverdam
  • 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:
    • Waymark.com

Communities Also Named Beaverdam ...

We found fifteen communities that share the name Beaverdam.

Within Utah, the name Beaverdam is unique.

Beyond Utah, we know of another fifteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fifteen communities, fourteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alberta
      • This Beaverdam lies 859 miles [1,382.4 km]<1> to the north of the Beaverdam that is located in Box Elder County.
    • Georgia
      • Gwinnett County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Beaverdam [Gwinnett County].
    • Maryland
      • Worcester County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Maryland community of Beaverdam [Worcester County].
    • Michigan
      • Ottawa County
      • This Beaverdam is located in Ottawa County and lies 1,328 miles [2,137.2 km]<1> to the east of the Beaverdam that is located in Box Elder County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ottawa County community of Beaverdam.
    • Missouri
      • Ripley County
      • This Beaverdam is located in Ripley County and lies 1,193 miles [1,919.9 km]<1> to the east of the Beaverdam that is located in Box Elder County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ripley County community of Beaverdam.
    • North Carolina
      • Buncombe County
      • This Beaverdam is located in Buncombe County and lies 1,633 miles [2,628.1 km]<1> to the east of the Beaverdam that is located in Box Elder County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Buncombe County community of Beaverdam.
      • Halifax County
      • This Beaverdam is located in Halifax County and lies 1,868 miles [3,006.3 km] to the east of the Beaverdam that is located in Box Elder County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Halifax County community of Beaverdam.
      • Haywood County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Beaverdam [Haywood County].
      • Union County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Beaverdam [Union County].
    • Ohio
      • Allen County
      • This Beaverdam is located in Allen County and lies 1,451 miles [2,335.2 km]<1> to the east of the Beaverdam that is located in Box Elder County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allen County community of Beaverdam.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Centre County
      • This Beaverdam is located in Centre County and lies 1,778 miles [2,861.4 km]<1> to the east of the Beaverdam that is located in Box Elder County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Centre County community of Beaverdam.
    • South Carolina
      • Cherokee County
      • This Beaverdam is located in Cherokee County and lies 1,697 miles [2,731.1 km]<1> to the east of the Beaverdam that is located in Box Elder County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cherokee County community of Beaverdam.
    • Texas
      • Bowie County
      • This Beaverdam is located in Bowie County and lies 1,101 miles [1,771.9 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Beaverdam that is located in Box Elder County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bowie County community of Beaverdam.
    • Virginia
      • Hanover County
      • This Beaverdam is located in Hanover County and lies 1,830 miles [2,945.1 km]<1> to the east of the Beaverdam that is located in Box Elder County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hanover County community of Beaverdam.
    • West Virginia
      • Wirt County
      • This Beaverdam is located in Wirt County and lies 1,619 miles [2,605.5 km]<1> to the east of the Beaverdam that is located in Box Elder County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Wirt County community of Beaverdam.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Beaverdam ...

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.

  • Cache
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cache
    • Cache is located in Cache County
  • Cache Junction ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cache Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cache Junction
    • Cache Junction is located in Cache County
  • Crossroads
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crossroads have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crossroads
    • Crossroads is located in Box Elder County
  • Deweyville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deweyville
    • Deweyville is located in Box Elder County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 383 people
    • Former names for Deweyville:
    • Dewey Spring
    • Dewey
    • Empey's Spring
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Deweyville <5>
  • Fielding
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fielding have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fielding
    • Fielding is located in Box Elder County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 482 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fielding <5>
  • Peter
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peter
    • Peter is located in Cache County
  • Plymouth
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Quigley Crossing
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Quigley Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quigley Crossing
    • Quigley Crossing is located in Cache County

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

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

  • Brigham City, which is the Seat of Box Elder County, lies 20 miles [32.2 km]<1> to the south. If you could walk a straight line from Beaverdam to Brigham City, with an average speed<6> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
  • Salt Lake City, which is the State Capital of Utah, lies 72 miles [115.9 km] to the south (S). 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 4 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,840 miles [2,961.2 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 72 days and walking would take 105 days.
  • The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,938 miles [11,165.6 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,707 miles [12,403.2 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<9>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,695 miles [9,165.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Beaverdam. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Box Elder County: www.boxeldercounty.org/

The official website for State of Utah: https://www.utah.gov/

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Beaverdam) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Beaverdam. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.8085, Longitude: -112.0568    
<2>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 Beaverdam, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 Beaverdam 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.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>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.
<7>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 Beaverdam to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 332.15 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 331.841 degrees.
<10>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 321.784 degrees.









 

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