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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 Redwood, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Redwood 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 Redwood:
    • 40.713280, -111.939104
    • 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 Redwood
  • 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 Redwood ...

We found eleven communities that share the name Redwood.

Within Utah, the name Redwood is unique.

Beyond Utah, we know of another eleven communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these eleven communities, ten are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Indiana
      • Warren 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 Redwood [Warren County].
    • Kansas
      • Dickinson County
      • This community is historic<2> and although located in Dickinson County, we don't know where within the county.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Dickinson County community of Redwood.
    • Minnesota
      • Redwood 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 Minnesota community of Redwood [Redwood County].
    • Mississippi
      • Warren County
      • This Redwood is located in Warren County and lies 1,297 miles [2,087.3 km]<3> to the east southeast of the Redwood that is located in Salt Lake County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Redwood.
    • New York
      • Jefferson County
      • This Redwood is located in Jefferson County and lies 1,841 miles [2,962.8 km]<3> to the east northeast of the Redwood that is located in Salt Lake County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Redwood.
      • Suffolk County
      • This Redwood is located in Suffolk County and lies 2,051 miles [3,300.8 km] to the east northeast of the Redwood that is located in Salt Lake County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Suffolk County community of Redwood.
    • North Carolina
      • Durham County
      • This Redwood is located in Durham County and lies 1,812 miles [2,916.1 km]<3> to the east of the Redwood that is located in Salt Lake County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Durham County community of Redwood.
    • Ontario
      • This Redwood lies 1,836 miles [2,954.8 km]<3> to the east northeast of the Redwood that is located in Salt Lake County.
    • Oregon
      • Josephine County
      • This Redwood is located in Josephine County and lies 602 miles [968.8 km]<3> to the west northwest of the Redwood that is located in Salt Lake County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Josephine County community of Redwood.
    • Texas
      • Guadalupe County
      • This Redwood is located in Guadalupe County and lies 1,089 miles [1,752.6 km]<3> to the southeast of the Redwood that is located in Salt Lake County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Guadalupe County community of Redwood.
    • Virginia
      • Franklin County
      • This Redwood is located in Franklin County and lies 1,736 miles [2,793.8 km]<3> to the east of the Redwood that is located in Salt Lake County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Franklin County community of Redwood.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Redwood ...

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.

  • Barbers
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Barbers have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barbers
    • Barbers is located in Salt Lake County
  • Bullock
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bullock have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullock
    • Bullock is located in Salt Lake County
  • Cannon
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cannon have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannon
    • Cannon is located in Salt Lake County
  • Fountain Place
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fountain Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountain Place
    • Fountain Place is located in Salt Lake County
  • Foxs
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Foxs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxs
    • Foxs is located in Salt Lake County
  • Franklin
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Franklin have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklin
    • Franklin is located in Salt Lake County
  • Green Acres
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Green Acres have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Acres
    • Green Acres is located in Salt Lake County
  • Heatherglen
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Heatherglen have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heatherglen
    • Heatherglen is located in Salt Lake County
  • Hector Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hector Park have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hector Park
    • Hector Park is located in Salt Lake County
  • High Avenue
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for High Avenue have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Avenue
    • High Avenue is located in Salt Lake County
  • Holland
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Holland have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holland
    • Holland is located in Salt Lake County
  • Kings Row
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kings Row have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Row
    • Kings Row is located in Salt Lake County
  • Continue List   (25 more) ...
    • Lee Ann
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lee Ann have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee Ann
      • Lee Ann is located in Salt Lake County
    • Lincoln Park
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lincoln Park have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Park
      • Lincoln Park is located in Salt Lake County
    • Lincoln Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lincoln Village have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Village
      • Lincoln Village is located in Salt Lake County
    • Log Haven
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Log Haven have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Log Haven
      • Log Haven is located in Salt Lake County
    • Maple Meadows
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Maple Meadows have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Meadows
      • Maple Meadows is located in Salt Lake County
    • Mead Circle
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mead Circle have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mead Circle
      • Mead Circle is located in Salt Lake County
    • Meadow Green
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Meadow Green have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Green
      • Meadow Green is located in Salt Lake County
    • Meadow Park
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Meadow Park have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Park
      • Meadow Park is located in Salt Lake County
    • Meadow Valley
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Meadow Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Valley
      • Meadow Valley is located in Salt Lake County
    • Melody Park
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Melody Park have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melody Park
      • Melody Park is located in Salt Lake County
    • Peachwood
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peachwood have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peachwood
      • Peachwood is located in Salt Lake County
    • Rolling Meadows
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rolling Meadows have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Meadows
      • Rolling Meadows is located in Salt Lake County
    • Roper
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Roper have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roper
      • Roper is located in Salt Lake County
    • Rural
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rural have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rural
      • Rural is located in Salt Lake County
    • Sharp
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sharp have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharp
      • Sharp is located in Salt Lake County
    • Silver Park
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silver Park have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Park
      • Silver Park is located in Salt Lake County
    • Stone Creek
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stone Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Creek
      • Stone Creek is located in Salt Lake County
    • Sunnybrook Park
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunnybrook Park have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnybrook Park
      • Sunnybrook Park is located in Salt Lake County
    • Sunnygrove
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunnygrove have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnygrove
      • Sunnygrove is located in Salt Lake County
    • Syndicate Place
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Syndicate Place have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Syndicate Place
      • Syndicate Place is located in Salt Lake County
    • Temple View
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Temple View have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Temple View
      • Temple View is located in Salt Lake County
    • Valley Down
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Valley Down have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Down
      • Valley Down is located in Salt Lake County
    • Victory Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Victory Village have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victory Village
      • Victory Village is located in Salt Lake County
    • Wahoo
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wahoo have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahoo
      • Wahoo is located in Salt Lake County
    • Willow Green
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Willow Green have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Green
      • Willow Green is located in Salt Lake County

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

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Redwood 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 1,843 miles [2,966 km]<3> to the east (E). If you could drive a straight line from Redwood to White House, with an average speed<5>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<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,002 miles [11,268.6 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 7,771 miles [12,506.2 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,750 miles [9,253.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>

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

The official website for Salt Lake County: www.slco.org/

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

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 Redwood 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>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 Redwood, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Redwood) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Redwood. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.7133, Longitude: -111.9391       In this case, the coordinates for Redwood have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 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 Redwood to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 331.958 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 331.521 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 321.799 degrees.









 

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