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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 Dickeyville, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Dickeyville 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 Dickeyville:
    • 42.625831, -90.592072
    • 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 Dickeyville
  • 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 Grant County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Grant County
    • Since Dickeyville is near Dubuque County and also Jo Daviess County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Dubuque County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Jo Daviess 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 Dickeyville

Communities Also Named Dickeyville ...

We found three communities that are also named Dickeyville.

Within Wisconsin, the name Dickeyville is unique.

Beyond Wisconsin, we know of three communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Indiana
      • Warrick County
      • This community is historic<1> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Indiana community of Dickeyville [Warrick County].
    • Kansas
      • Phillips 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 Kansas community of Dickeyville [Phillips County].
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore City
      • This Dickeyville is located in Baltimore City and lies 758 miles [1,219.9 km]<3> to the east southeast of the Dickeyville that is located in Grant County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Baltimore City community of Dickeyville.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Dickeyville ...

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.

  • Bigpatch
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Bigpatch is located in Grant County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bigpatch
  • British Hollow
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • British Hollow is located in Grant County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for British Hollow
  • Eagle Point
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Eagle Point is located in Dubuque County (IA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Point
  • Fair Play
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Fair Play is located in Grant County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fair Play
  • Georgetown
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Georgetown is located in Grant County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georgetown
  • Jamestown
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jamestown is located in Grant County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamestown
  • Louisburg
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Louisburg is located in Grant County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louisburg
  • Prairie Corners
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Prairie Corners is located in Grant County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Corners
  • Rose
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Rose is located in Dubuque County (IA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose
  • Sageville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Sageville is located in Dubuque County (IA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sageville
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 100 people
  • Sandy Hook
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Sandy Hook is located in Grant County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Hook

How Far From Dickeyville 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 village such as Dickeyville to various places of note, such as the White House.

With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance beginning in Dickeyville and extending to:

  • Lancaster, which is the Seat of Grant County, lies 16 miles [25.7 km]<3> to the north northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Dickeyville to Lancaster, with an average speed<4> 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 five to six hours.
  • Madison, which is the State Capital of Wisconsin, lies 67 miles [107.8 km] to the east northeast (ENE). 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 White House (Washington, DC) is 753 miles [1,211.8 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 30 days and walking would take 43 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,252 miles [10,061.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,998 miles [11,262.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,889 miles [7,868.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

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 Dickeyville, 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 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 Dickeyville 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Dickeyville) 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 Dickeyville 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 Dickeyville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.6258, Longitude: -90.5921       In this case, the coordinates for Dickeyville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.427 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 313.709 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.85 degrees.