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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 River Crest, we use the following websites to find information relevant to River Crest 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 River Crest:
    • 40.552726, -111.925491
    • 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 River Crest
  • 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 River Crest is near Utah County and also Tooele County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Utah County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Tooele 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 River Crest

Communities Also Named River Crest ...

We found one communities that are also named River Crest.

Within Utah, the name River Crest is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Oregon
      • Clackamas 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 Oregon community of River Crest [Clackamas County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near River Crest ...

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.

  • Blue Star Meadows
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Blue Star Meadows is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Star Meadows
  • Clover Ridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Clover Ridge is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clover Ridge
  • Crescent
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Crescent is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent
  • Crescent Ridge
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Crescent Ridge is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Ridge
  • David Street
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • David Street is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for David Street
  • Dry Creek
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Dry Creek is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Creek
  • Edenbrooke
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Edenbrooke is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edenbrooke
  • Farm Meadows
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Farm Meadows is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farm Meadows
  • Featherwood Village
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Featherwood Village is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Featherwood Village
  • Freeman Butterfield
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Freeman Butterfield is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeman Butterfield
  • Greenfield
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Greenfield is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenfield
  • Greenfield Farms
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Greenfield Farms is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenfield Farms
  • Continue List   (11 more) ...
    • Greenfield Meadows
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Greenfield Meadows is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenfield Meadows
    • Heritage Heights
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Heritage Heights is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heritage Heights
    • Heritage Villa
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Heritage Villa is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heritage Villa
    • Lane Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Lane Village is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lane Village
    • Majestic Cove
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Majestic Cove is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Majestic Cove
    • Majestic Heights
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Majestic Heights is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Majestic Heights
    • Meadow Lane
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Meadow Lane is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Lane
    • Meadowridge
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Meadowridge is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowridge
    • Park Avenue
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Park Avenue is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Avenue
    • Spring Hollow
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Spring Hollow is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Hollow
    • Twin Lakes
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Twin Lakes is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Lakes

How Far From River Crest to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as River Crest to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Salt Lake City, which is the Seat of Salt Lake County, lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<2> to the north. If you could walk a straight line from River Crest to Salt Lake City, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day 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 14 miles [22.5 km] to the north (N). The buggy would take four to five hours and walking would take most of a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,844 miles [2,967.6 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 72 days and walking would take 105 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,012 miles [11,284.7 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 7,780 miles [12,520.7 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,758 miles [9,266.6 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 River Crest 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- River Crest) 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 River Crest 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 River Crest. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.5527, Longitude: -111.9255       In this case, the coordinates for River Crest have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 331.932 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 331.476 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 321.803 degrees.