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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 Taggarts, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Taggarts 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 Taggarts:
- 41.059667, -111.591873
- 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 Taggarts
- 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 Morgan County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Morgan County
- Since Taggarts is near Summit County and also Weber County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Summit County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Weber 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 Taggarts
Communities Also Named Taggarts ...
We found one communities that are also named Taggarts.
Within Utah, the name Taggarts is unique.
Beyond Utah, there is another community also named Taggarts in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Indiana
- Morgan 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 Taggarts [Morgan County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Taggarts ...
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.
- Devils Slide ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Devils Slide is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devils Slide
- Echo
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Echo Resort
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Echo Resort is located in Summit County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo Resort
- Enterprise
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Enterprise is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enterprise
- Littleton ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Littleton is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littleton
- Mountain Green
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Mountain Green is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Green
- Porterville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Porterville is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porterville
- Richville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Richville is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richville
How Far From Taggarts 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 Taggarts to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Taggarts and extending to:
- Morgan, which is the Seat of Morgan County, lies just to the West Southwest.
- Salt Lake City, which is the State Capital of Utah, lies 26 miles [41.8 km]<3> to the southwest (SW). If you could walk a straight line from Taggarts to Salt Lake City, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take just over a day.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,822 miles [2,932.2 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 104 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,973 miles [11,222 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 7,741 miles [12,457.9 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,720 miles [9,205.4 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 Taggarts 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Taggarts) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Taggarts 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 Taggarts. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.0597, Longitude: -111.5919 In this case, the coordinates for Taggarts have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 331.717 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 331.267 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 321.571 degrees. |
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