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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 Mellen, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Mellen 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 Mellen:
    • 40.741335, -111.912714
    • 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 Mellen
  • 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 Salt Lake County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Salt Lake County
    • Since Mellen is near Davis County and also Summit 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 Summit 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 Mellen

Communities Also Named Mellen ...

We found two communities that are also named Mellen.

Within Utah, the name Mellen is unique.

Beyond Utah, we know of two communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Virginia
      • Mellen #
      • 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 Virginia community of Mellen.
    • Wisconsin
      • Ashland County
      • This Mellen is located in Ashland County and lies 1,127 miles [1,813.7 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Mellen that is located in Salt Lake County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Ashland County community of Mellen.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Mellen ...

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.

  • Blaine
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Blaine is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blaine
  • Bullock
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Bullock is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullock
  • Cannon
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Cannon is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannon
  • City Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • City Park is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for City Park
  • Edwards
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Edwards is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwards
  • Fountain Place
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Fountain Place is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountain Place
  • Foxs
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Foxs is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxs
  • Franklin
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Franklin is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklin
  • Glenn
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Glenn is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenn
  • Golden Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Golden Park is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Park
  • Granite
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Granite is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite
  • Great Westside
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Great Westside is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Great Westside
  • Continue List   (20 more) ...
    • High Avenue
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • High Avenue is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Avenue
    • Holland
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Holland is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holland
    • Hunters
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Hunters is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters
    • Jones
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Jones is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones
    • Jordan Place
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Jordan Place is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jordan Place
    • Lincoln Park
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Lincoln Park is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Park
    • Lincoln Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Lincoln Village is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Village
    • Martins
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Martins is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martins
    • Mead Circle
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Mead Circle is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mead Circle
    • Poplar Place
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Poplar Place is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Place
    • Roper
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Roper is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roper
    • Rural
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Rural is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rural
    • Salt Lake City
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Sharp
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Sharp is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharp
    • Silver Park
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Silver Park is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Park
    • Syndicate Place
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Syndicate Place is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Syndicate Place
    • Temple View
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Temple View is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Temple View
    • Thorn
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Thorn is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorn
    • Victory Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Victory Village is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victory Village
    • Wahoo
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Wahoo is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahoo

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

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

  • Salt Lake City, which is the Seat of Salt Lake County, lies just to the North Northeast.
  • Salt Lake City, which is the State Capital of Utah, lies just to the north northeast (NNE).
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,841 miles [2,962.8 km]<2> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Mellen to White House, with an average speed<4>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 105 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 72 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,000 miles [11,265.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,768 miles [12,501.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,748 miles [9,250.5 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 Mellen 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 '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- Mellen) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Mellen 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 Mellen. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.7413, Longitude: -111.9127       In this case, the coordinates for Mellen have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 331.939 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 331.502 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 321.782 degrees.