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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 Calumet Harbor, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Calumet Harbor 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 Calumet Harbor:
    • 43.913045, -88.332328
    • 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 Calumet Harbor
  • 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 Fond du Lac County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Fond du Lac County
    • Since Calumet Harbor is near Calumet County and also Winnebago County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Calumet County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Winnebago 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 Calumet Harbor

Communities Also Named Calumet Harbor ...

We found one communities that are also named Calumet Harbor.

Within Wisconsin, the name Calumet Harbor is unique.

Beyond Wisconsin, there is another community also named Calumet Harbor in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Illinois
      • Cook 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 Illinois community of Calumet Harbor [Cook County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Calumet Harbor ...

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.

  • Brothertown
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Brothertown is located in Calumet County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brothertown
  • Calvary
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Calvary is located in Fond du Lac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvary
  • Johnsburg
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Johnsburg is located in Fond du Lac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnsburg
  • Little Point
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Little Point is located in Winnebago County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Point
  • Maple Heights
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Maple Heights is located in Calumet County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Heights
  • Marytown
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Marytown is located in Fond du Lac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marytown
  • Pipe
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Pipe is located in Fond du Lac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pipe
  • Point Comfort
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Point Comfort is located in Winnebago County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Comfort
  • Silica
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Silica is located in Fond du Lac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silica

How Far From Calumet Harbor 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 Calumet Harbor to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Fond du Lac, which is the Seat of Fond du Lac County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the south southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Calumet Harbor to Fond du Lac, with an average speed<3> 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.
  • Madison, which is the State Capital of Wisconsin, lies 78 miles [125.5 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 678 miles [1,091.1 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 27 days and walking would take 39 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,109 miles [9,831.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,854 miles [11,030.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,745 miles [7,636.3 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 Calumet Harbor 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Calumet Harbor) 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 Calumet Harbor 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 Calumet Harbor. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.9130, Longitude: -88.3323       In this case, the coordinates for Calumet Harbor have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.881 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.127 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.315 degrees.