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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 Greendale, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Greendale 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 Greendale:
    • 40.878401, -109.499778
    • 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 Greendale
  • 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 Daggett County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Daggett County
    • Since Greendale is near Uintah County and also Sweetwater County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Uintah County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Sweetwater 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 Greendale

Communities Also Named Greendale ...

We found 22 communities that are also named Greendale.

Within Utah, the name Greendale is unique.

Beyond Utah, we know of 22 communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these 22 communities, nineteen are located in the United States and three are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • British Columbia
      • This Greendale lies 834 miles [1,342.2 km]<1> to the northwest of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
    • California
      • Yolo County
      • This Greendale is located in Yolo County and lies 665 miles [1,070.2 km]<1> to the west of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yolo County community of Greendale.
    • Illinois
      • Winnebago County
      • This Greendale is located in Winnebago County and lies 1,057 miles [1,701.1 km]<1> to the east of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Winnebago County community of Greendale.
    • Indiana
      • Allen County
      • This Greendale is located in Allen County and lies 1,268 miles [2,040.6 km]<1> to the east of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allen County community of Greendale.
      • Dearborn County
      • This Greendale is located in Dearborn County and lies 1,305 miles [2,100.2 km] to the east of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dearborn County community of Greendale.
    • Kentucky
      • Fayette County
      • This Greendale is located in Fayette County and lies 1,339 miles [2,154.9 km]<1> to the east of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fayette County community of Greendale.
    • Louisiana
      • East Baton Rouge Parish
      • This Greendale is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and lies 1,251 miles [2,013.3 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the East Baton Rouge Parish community of Greendale.
    • Massachusetts
      • Worcester County
      • This Greendale is located in Worcester County and lies 1,933 miles [3,110.9 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Worcester County community of Greendale.
    • Missouri
      • Saint Louis County
      • This Greendale is located in Saint Louis County and lies 1,027 miles [1,652.8 km]<1> to the east of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Saint Louis County community of Greendale.
    • New Brunswick
      • This Greendale lies 2,183 miles [3,513.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
    • New York
      • Columbia County
      • This Greendale is located in Columbia County and lies 1,831 miles [2,946.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Greendale.
    • Ohio
      • Hocking County
      • This Greendale is located in Hocking County and lies 1,432 miles [2,304.6 km]<1> to the east of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hocking County community of Greendale.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Armstrong County
      • This Greendale is located in Armstrong County and lies 1,565 miles [2,518.6 km]<1> to the east of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Armstrong County community of Greendale.
      • Franklin County
      • This Greendale is located in Franklin County and lies 1,670 miles [2,687.6 km] to the east of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Greendale.
      • McKean County
      • This Greendale is located in McKean County and lies 1,586 miles [2,552.4 km] to the east northeast of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the McKean County community of Greendale.
    • Quebec
      • This Greendale lies 1,807 miles [2,908.1 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
    • Texas
      • Harris County
      • This Greendale is located in Harris County and lies 1,119 miles [1,800.9 km]<1> to the southeast of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harris County community of Greendale.
    • Virginia
      • Henrico County
      • This Greendale is located in Henrico County and lies 1,716 miles [2,761.6 km]<1> to the east of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Henrico County community of Greendale.
      • Washington County
      • This Greendale is located in Washington County and lies 1,497 miles [2,409.2 km] to the east of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Greendale.
    • Washington
      • Pierce 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 Washington community of Greendale [Pierce County].
    • West Virginia
      • Nicholas County
      • This Greendale is located in Nicholas County and lies 1,512 miles [2,433.3 km]<1> to the east of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Nicholas County community of Greendale.
    • Wisconsin
      • Milwaukee County
      • This Greendale is located in Milwaukee County and lies 1,110 miles [1,786.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Greendale that is located in Daggett County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Milwaukee County community of Greendale.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Greendale ...

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.

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic<4> community of Greendale once stood, the straight-line distance beginning in Greendale and extending to:

  • Manila, which is the Seat of Daggett County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<1> to the northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Greendale to Manila, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take 6 hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
  • Salt Lake City, which is the State Capital of Utah, lies 125 miles [201.2 km] to the west (W). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 8 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,715 miles [2,760 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 67 days and walking would take 98 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,931 miles [11,154.4 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 7,698 miles [12,388.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,661 miles [9,110.5 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- Greendale) 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Greendale 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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 Greendale, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 Greendale 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 Greendale. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.8784, Longitude: -109.4998    
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 330.068 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 329.31 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 320.378 degrees.