Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Adelaide, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Adelaide and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Adelaide
- 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 Adelaide:
- 47.649490, -122.088476
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Adelaide
- 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 King County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for King County
- Since Adelaide is near Snohomish County and also Kitsap County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Snohomish County
- eBird sighting report for Kitsap 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Adelaide ...
We found seventeen communities that share the name Adelaide.
Within Washington, the name Adelaide is unique.
Beyond Washington, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, thirteen are located in the United States and one is in Canada.
In addition to the above occurrences of Adelaide, we know of three communities located outside of the United States and Canada.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Fremont County
- This Adelaide is located in Fremont County and lies 1,058 miles [1,702.7 km]<3> to the east southeast of the Adelaide that is located in King County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Fremont County community of Adelaide.
- Lake County
- This Adelaide is located in Lake County and lies 979 miles [1,575.5 km] to the east southeast of the Adelaide that is located in King County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lake County community of Adelaide.
- Georgia
- Bulloch County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<2> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Adelaide [Bulloch County].
- Mitchell County
- This Adelaide is located in Mitchell County and lies 2,285 miles [3,677.4 km]<3> to the east southeast of the Adelaide that is located in King County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Mitchell County community of Adelaide.
- Idaho
- Kansas
- Minnesota
- Nevada
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Ontario
- This Adelaide lies 1,963 miles [3,159.1 km]<3> to the east of the Adelaide that is located in King County.
- Pennsylvania
- Communities Beyond North America ...
Curious and Interesting Names Near Adelaide ...
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.
- Boddy
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west) - Clyde
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west) - Clyde Hill
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clyde Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clyde Hill
- Clyde Hill is located in King County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,398 people
- Cottage Lake
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cottage Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottage Lake
- Cottage Lake is located in King County
- Cougar Hills
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cougar Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cougar Hills
- Cougar Hills is located in King County
- Crossroads
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crossroads have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crossroads
- Crossroads is located in King County
- Hilltop
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south) - Hunts Point
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunts Point
- Hunts Point is located in King County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 435 people
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Hunts Point
- From Adelaide to Hunts Point
- Kingsgate
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsgate
- Kingsgate is located in King County
- Google driving directions:
- From your current location to Kingsgate
- From Adelaide to Kingsgate
- Mint Grove
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mint Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mint Grove
- Mint Grove is located in King County
- Moorland
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest) - Novelty
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast) - Continue List (4 more) ...
- Robinswood
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Robinswood have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinswood
- Robinswood is located in King County
- Rose Hill
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest) - Sand Point
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sand Point have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Point
- Sand Point is located in King County
- Willows
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Robinswood
How Far From Adelaide 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 Adelaide to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Adelaide and extending to:
- Seattle, which is the Seat of King County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> to the west southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Adelaide to Seattle, with an average speed<5> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take five to six hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take nearly four hours.
- Olympia, which is the State Capital of Washington, lies 56 miles [90.1 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take over two days and walking would take most of three days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,309 miles [3,716 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 91 days and walking would take 132 days.
- The shortest distance<6> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,767 miles [10,890.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,529 miles [12,116.8 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,651 miles [9,094.4 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<9>
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Adelaide. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for King County: www.metrokc.gov/
The official website for State of Washington: https://wa.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Adelaide, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | 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 Adelaide 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. |
| <3> | 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- Adelaide) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Adelaide. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.6495, Longitude: -122.0885 In this case, the coordinates for Adelaide have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <4> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | 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 Adelaide to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 340.673 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 342.199 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 327.595 degrees. |