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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 McDuff, we use the following websites to find information relevant to McDuff 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 McDuff:
- 37.955693, -77.460815
- 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 McDuff
- 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 Caroline County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Caroline County
- Since McDuff is near Hanover County and also Spotsylvania County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Hanover County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Spotsylvania 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 McDuff
Communities Also Named McDuff ...
We found one communities that are also named McDuff.
Within Virginia, the name McDuff is unique.
Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named McDuff in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Texas
- Bastrop 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 Texas community of McDuff [Bastrop County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near McDuff ...
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.
- Bagdad
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Bagdad is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bagdad
- Bowling Green
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Cedar Fork
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Cedar Fork is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Fork
- Chilesburg
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Chilesburg is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chilesburg
- Hart Corner
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Hart Corner is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hart Corner
- Holliday
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Holliday is located in Hanover County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holliday
- Houstons Corner
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Houstons Corner is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Houstons Corner
- Kidds Fork
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Kidds Fork is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kidds Fork
- Ladysmith
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Ladysmith is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ladysmith
- Oak Corner
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Oak Corner is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Corner
- Oliver
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Oliver is located in Hanover County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oliver
- Poplar
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Poplar is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar
- Signboard
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Signboard is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Signboard
- Swans Corner
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Swans Corner is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swans Corner
How Far From McDuff to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as McDuff to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in McDuff and extending to:
- Bowling Green, which is the Seat of Caroline County, lies just to the Northeast.
- Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 28 miles [45.1 km]<3> to the south (S). If you could walk a straight line from McDuff to Richmond, 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 68 miles [109.4 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take about three full days and walking would take three full days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,956 miles [9,585.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,657 miles [10,713.4 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,536 miles [7,300 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 McDuff 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- McDuff) 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 McDuff 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 McDuff. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.9557, Longitude: -77.4608 In this case, the coordinates for McDuff have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.192 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.639 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.245 degrees. |
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