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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 Lamartine, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Lamartine 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 Lamartine:
    • 43.733321, -88.568719
    • 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 Lamartine
  • 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 Lamartine is near Dodge County and also Winnebago County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Dodge 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 Lamartine

Communities Also Named Lamartine ...

We found five communities that are also named Lamartine.

Within Wisconsin, the name Lamartine is unique.

Beyond Wisconsin, we know of five communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these five communities, four are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Columbia County
      • This Lamartine is located in Columbia County and lies 757 miles [1,218.3 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Lamartine that is located in Fond du Lac County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Columbia County community of Lamartine.
    • Colorado
      • Clear Creek County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Colorado community of Lamartine [Clear Creek County].
    • Ohio
      • Carroll County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Lamartine [Carroll County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Clarion County
      • This Lamartine is located in Clarion County and lies 486 miles [782.1 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Lamartine that is located in Fond du Lac County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clarion County community of Lamartine.
    • Quebec
      • This Lamartine lies 912 miles [1,467.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Lamartine that is located in Fond du Lac County.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Lamartine ...

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.

  • Eden
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Eden is located in Fond du Lac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 943 people
  • Eldorado
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Eldorado is located in Fond du Lac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eldorado
  • Farmersville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Farmersville is located in Dodge County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmersville
  • LeRoy
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • LeRoy is located in Dodge County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for LeRoy
  • Little Point
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Little Point is located in Winnebago County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Point
  • Marblehead
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Marblehead is located in Fond du Lac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marblehead
  • Oak Center
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Oak Center is located in Fond du Lac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Center
  • Ring
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Ring is located in Winnebago County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ring
  • Rogersville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Rogersville is located in Fond du Lac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogersville
  • Silica
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Silica is located in Fond du Lac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silica

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

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

  • Fond du Lac, which is the Seat of Fond du Lac County, lies just to the East Northeast.
  • Madison, which is the State Capital of Wisconsin, lies 61 miles [98.2 km]<1> to the southwest (SW). If you could walk a straight line from Lamartine to Madison, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of three days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take about three full days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 684 miles [1,100.8 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 27 days and walking would take 39 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,126 miles [9,858.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,871 miles [11,057.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,762 miles [7,663.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Lamartine) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 Lamartine, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird 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 Lamartine 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.
<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 Lamartine 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 Lamartine. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.7333, Longitude: -88.5687       In this case, the coordinates for Lamartine have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.044 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.288 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.492 degrees.