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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 Hiawatha, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Hiawatha 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 Hiawatha:
    • 39.484270, -111.012307
    • 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 Hiawatha
  • 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 Carbon County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Carbon County
    • Since Hiawatha is near Emery County and also Sanpete County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Emery County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Sanpete 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 Hiawatha

Communities Also Named Hiawatha ...

We found twelve communities that are also named Hiawatha.

Within Utah, the name Hiawatha is unique.

Beyond Utah, we know of twelve communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these twelve communities, eleven are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Colorado
      • Moffat County
      • This community is historic<1> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Hiawatha [Moffat County].
    • Iowa
      • Linn County
      • This Hiawatha is located in Linn County and lies 1,023 miles [1,646.4 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Hiawatha that is located in Carbon County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Linn County community of Hiawatha.
    • Kansas
      • Brown County
      • This Hiawatha is located in Brown County and lies 821 miles [1,321.3 km]<2> to the east of the Hiawatha that is located in Carbon County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Brown County community of Hiawatha.
    • Michigan
      • Iron 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 Michigan community of Hiawatha [Iron County].
      • Schoolcraft County
      • This Hiawatha is located in Schoolcraft County and lies 1,328 miles [2,137.2 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Hiawatha that is located in Carbon County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Schoolcraft County community of Hiawatha.
    • Nebraska
      • Dundy County
      • This community is historic<1> and although located in Dundy County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dundy County community of Hiawatha.
      • Washington County
      • This community is historic and although located in Washington County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Hiawatha.
    • New York
      • Tioga 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 New York community of Hiawatha [Tioga County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Le Flore County
      • This Hiawatha is located in Le Flore County and lies 962 miles [1,548.2 km]<2> to the east southeast of the Hiawatha that is located in Carbon County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Le Flore County community of Hiawatha.
    • Ontario
      • This Hiawatha lies 1,706 miles [2,745.5 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Hiawatha that is located in Carbon County.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Wayne 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 Pennsylvania community of Hiawatha [Wayne County].
    • West Virginia
      • Mercer County
      • This Hiawatha is located in Mercer County and lies 1,608 miles [2,587.8 km]<2> to the east of the Hiawatha that is located in Carbon County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mercer County community of Hiawatha.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Hiawatha ...

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 Hiawatha 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 town such as Hiawatha to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Price, which is the Seat of Carbon County, lies 13 miles [20.9 km]<2> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Hiawatha to Price, 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 99 miles [159.3 km] to the north northwest (NNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take three full days and walking would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,807 miles [2,908.1 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 71 days and walking would take 103 days.
  • The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,054 miles [11,352.3 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 7,821 miles [12,586.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,786 miles [9,311.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Hiawatha, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Hiawatha) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 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 Hiawatha 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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Hiawatha 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 Hiawatha. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.4843, Longitude: -111.0123    
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 331.108 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 330.409 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 321.352 degrees.