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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 Wood Haven, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Wood Haven 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 Wood Haven:
    • 40.686057, -112.042162
    • 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 Wood Haven
  • 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 Wood Haven is near Tooele County and also Davis County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Tooele County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Davis 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 Wood Haven

Communities Also Named Wood Haven ...

We found one communities that are also named Wood Haven.

Within Utah, the name Wood Haven is unique.

Beyond Utah, there is another community also named Wood Haven in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • New York
      • Queens 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 New York community of Wood Haven [Queens County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Wood Haven ...

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.

  • Cherrywood Village
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Cherrywood Village is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherrywood Village
  • Copper Hills Heights
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Copper Hills Heights is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper Hills Heights
  • Crisp
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Crisp is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crisp
  • Dial Heights
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Dial Heights is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dial Heights
  • Equestrian Springs
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Equestrian Springs is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Equestrian Springs
  • Falconcrest
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Falconcrest is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falconcrest
  • Glen Heather
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Glen Heather is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Heather
  • Highland Meadows
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Highland Meadows is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Meadows
  • Hunter
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Hunter is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunter
  • Hunter Farmes
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Hunter Farmes is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunter Farmes
  • Hunter Heights
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Hunter Heights is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunter Heights
  • Hunter Hills
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Hunter Hills is located in Salt Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunter Hills
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Hunter Stake
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Hunter Stake is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunter Stake
    • Jonesdale
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Jonesdale is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonesdale
    • King Valley
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • King Valley is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for King Valley
    • Majestic Grove
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Majestic Grove is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Majestic Grove
    • Mallard
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Mallard is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mallard
    • Martin Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Martin Village is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin Village
    • Merry Lane
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Merry Lane is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merry Lane
    • Orchard View
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Orchard View is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchard View
    • Silver Meadows
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Silver Meadows is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Meadows
    • Springbrook
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Springbrook is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springbrook
    • Sue Ann
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Sue Ann is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sue Ann
    • Sunny Side
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Sunny Side is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunny Side
    • Sunset Hills
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Sunset Hills is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Hills
    • Teasel Downs
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Teasel Downs is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teasel Downs
    • Woodledge
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Woodledge is located in Salt Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodledge

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

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

  • Salt Lake City, which is the Seat of Salt Lake County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Wood Haven to Salt Lake City, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
  • Salt Lake City, which is the State Capital of Utah, lies 9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast (NE). The buggy would take a little over three hours and walking would take four to five hours.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,849 miles [2,975.7 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 73 days and walking would take 105 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,007 miles [11,276.7 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 7,775 miles [12,512.6 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,755 miles [9,261.8 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Wood Haven 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Wood Haven) 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 Wood Haven 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 Wood Haven. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6861, Longitude: -112.0422       In this case, the coordinates for Wood Haven have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 332.036 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 331.611 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 321.861 degrees.