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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 Smoots, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Smoots 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 Smoots:
- 38.016802, -77.278312
- 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 Smoots
- 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 Smoots is near King and Queen County and also Essex County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for King and Queen County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Essex 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 Smoots
Communities Also Named Smoots ...
We found one communities that are also named Smoots.
Within Virginia, the name Smoots is unique.
Beyond Virginia, there is another community also named Smoots in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- West Virginia
- Preston 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 West Virginia community of Smoots [Preston County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Smoots ...
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.
- Bowling Green
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Butlers Fork
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Butlers Fork is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butlers Fork
- Hard Corner
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Hard Corner is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hard Corner
- Hickory Fork
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Hickory Fork is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Fork
- Hicks Mill
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Hicks Mill is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hicks Mill
- Howards Corner
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Howards Corner is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howards Corner
- Jones Corner
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Jones Corner is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones Corner
- Kidds Fork
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Kidds Fork is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kidds Fork
- Lauraville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Lauraville is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lauraville
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Liberty Fork
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Liberty Fork is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Fork
- Oak Corner
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Oak Corner is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Corner
- Penny Corner
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Penny Corner is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Penny Corner
- Poorhouse Corner
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Poorhouse Corner is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poorhouse Corner
- Range Corner
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Range Corner is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Range Corner
- Raymonds Fork
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Raymonds Fork is located in Caroline County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raymonds Fork
How Far From Smoots 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 Smoots to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Smoots and extending to:
- Bowling Green, which is the Seat of Caroline County, lies just to the West Northwest.
- Richmond, which is the State Capital of Virginia, lies 33 miles [53.1 km]<3> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could walk a straight line from Smoots to Richmond, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of two 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 62 miles [99.8 km] to the north northeast (NNE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take about three full days and walking would take most of three days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 5,945 miles [9,567.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,647 miles [10,697.3 km] and it lies to the east northeast (ENE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,525 miles [7,282.3 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 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 Smoots 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Smoots) 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 Smoots 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 Smoots. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.0168, Longitude: -77.2783 In this case, the coordinates for Smoots have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 308.082 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 303.523 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 305.148 degrees. |
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