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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 Craige, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Craige 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 Craige:
- 46.135433, -117.023763
- 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 Craige
- 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 Asotin County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Asotin County
- Since Craige is near Nez Perce County and also Wallowa County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Nez Perce County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Wallowa 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 Craige
Communities Also Named Craige ...
We found one communities that are also named Craige.
Within Washington, the name Craige is unique.
Beyond Washington, there is another community also named Craige in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Alabama
- Blount 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 Alabama community of Craige [Blount County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Craige ...
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.
- Cloverland
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Cloverland is located in Asotin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverland
- Forest
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Forest is located in Lewis County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest
- Grahams Landing
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Grahams Landing is located in Asotin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grahams Landing
- Highland
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Highland is located in Asotin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland
- Jerry
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Jerry is located in Asotin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerry
- Mountain View
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Mountain View is located in Asotin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View
- Paradise
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Paradise is located in Wallowa County (OR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
- Rogersburg
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Rogersburg is located in Asotin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogersburg
- Snow ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Snow is located in Nez Perce County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snow
- Vineland
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Vineland is located in Asotin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vineland
How Far From Craige 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 Craige to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Craige and extending to:
- Asotin, which is the Seat of Asotin County, lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<2> to the north. If you could walk a straight line from Craige to Asotin, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of a day to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take four to five hours.
- Olympia, which is the State Capital of Washington, lies 285 miles [458.7 km] to the west northwest (WNW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 12 days and walking would take 17 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 2,072 miles [3,334.6 km] to the east (E). Driving would take 5 days, a buggy would take 81 days and walking would take 118 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,776 miles [10,904.9 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 7,544 miles [12,140.9 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,604 miles [9,018.8 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 Rock Creek to see Pete ... Rock 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 Craige 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 '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- Craige) 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 Craige 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 Craige. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.1354, Longitude: -117.0238 In this case, the coordinates for Craige have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 336.439 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 337.19 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 324.451 degrees. |
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