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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 Foxglen, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Foxglen 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 Foxglen:
    • 41.179111, -112.068276
    • 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 Foxglen
  • 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 Weber County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Weber County
    • Since Foxglen is near Davis County and also Box Elder County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Davis County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Box Elder 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 Foxglen

Communities Also Named Foxglen ...

We found one communities that are also named Foxglen.

Within Utah, the name Foxglen is unique.

Beyond Utah, there is another community also named Foxglen in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Indiana
      • Hamilton 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 Indiana community of Foxglen [Hamilton County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Foxglen ...

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.

  • Allred
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Allred is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allred
  • Cedar Ridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Cedar Ridge is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Ridge
  • Chestnut Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Chestnut Park is located in Davis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Park
  • Clint Village
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Clint Village is located in Davis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clint Village
  • Cottonwood Meadows
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Cottonwood Meadows is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood Meadows
  • Cozydale
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Cozydale is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cozydale
  • English Manor
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • English Manor is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for English Manor
  • Goodfellow
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Goodfellow is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodfellow
  • Harmony Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Harmony Park is located in Weber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Park
  • Hatch
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Hatch is located in Davis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatch
  • He Flys
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • He Flys is located in Davis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for He Flys
  • Heritage Square
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Heritage Square is located in Davis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heritage Square
  • Continue List   (20 more) ...
    • Jones
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Jones is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones
    • Kanesville
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Kanesville is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanesville
    • Kingsville Junction
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Kingsville Junction is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsville Junction
    • Lakeview Gardens
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Lakeview Gardens is located in Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview Gardens
    • Laurel Lea
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Laurel Lea is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurel Lea
    • Lee Mesa
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Lee Mesa is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee Mesa
    • Marvins
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Marvins is located in Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marvins
    • Meadowlane
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Meadowlane is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowlane
    • Park Lake
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Park Lake is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Lake
    • Peppermint Park
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Peppermint Park is located in Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peppermint Park
    • Pleasant View
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Pleasant View is located in Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant View
    • Purser
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Purser is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Purser
    • Quail Point
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Quail Point is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quail Point
    • Sandalwood Square
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Sandalwood Square is located in Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandalwood Square
    • Shamrock
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Shamrock is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shamrock
    • Sun Ray
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Sun Ray is located in Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Ray
    • Sunray
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Sunray is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunray
    • Sunset Dale
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Sunset Dale is located in Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Dale
    • Tanner
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Tanner is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tanner
    • Willow Wood
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Willow Wood is located in Weber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Wood

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Foxglen and extending to:

  • Ogden, which is the Seat of Weber County, lies just to the Northeast.
  • Salt Lake City, which is the State Capital of Utah, lies 30 miles [48.3 km]<2> to the south southeast (SSE). If you could walk a straight line from Foxglen to Salt Lake City, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of two days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,846 miles [2,970.8 km] to the east (E). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take most of three days, a buggy would take 73 days and walking would take 105 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,977 miles [11,228.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,746 miles [12,466 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,729 miles [9,219.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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 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 Foxglen 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>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 from Point A (ie- Foxglen) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Foxglen 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 Foxglen. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.1791, Longitude: -112.0683       In this case, the coordinates for Foxglen have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 332.103 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 331.732 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 321.84 degrees.