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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 Landstad, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Landstad 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 Landstad:
    • 44.660544, -88.443713
    • 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 Landstad
  • 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 Shawano County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Shawano County
    • Since Landstad is near Outagamie County and also Brown County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Outagamie County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Brown 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 Landstad

Communities Also Named Landstad ...

We found one communities that are also named Landstad.

There is one other community in Wisconsin that is also named Landstad.

Beyond Wisconsin.

  • Communities Located In Wisconsin ...
    • Langlade 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 Wisconsin community of Landstad [Langlade County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Landstad ...

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.

  • Advance
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Advance is located in Shawano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance
  • Cecil
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Cecil is located in Shawano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cecil
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 548 people
  • Chase
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Chase is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chase
  • Embarrass
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Embarrass is located in Waupaca County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Embarrass
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 375 people
  • Five Corners
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Five Corners is located in Outagamie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Corners
  • Green Valley
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Green Valley is located in Shawano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Valley
  • Hintz
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Hintz is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hintz
  • Hobart
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Hobart is located in Brown County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobart
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,495 people
  • Legend Lake
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Legend Lake is located in Menominee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Legend Lake
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Red River
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Red River is located in Shawano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red River
    • Rose Lawn
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Rose Lawn is located in Shawano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Lawn
    • Slab City
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Slab City is located in Shawano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab City
    • Sugar Bush
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Sugar Bush is located in Outagamie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Bush
    • Tremble
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Tremble is located in Brown County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tremble
    • Twelve Corners
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Twelve Corners is located in Outagamie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twelve Corners

How Far From Landstad to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers, Almanacs & Directories that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Landstad to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Shawano, which is the Seat of Shawano County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<2> to the northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Landstad to Shawano, 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 119 miles [191.5 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take about two hours, a buggy would take 5 days and walking would take 7 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 708 miles [1,139.4 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 28 days and walking would take 41 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,076 miles [9,778.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,823 miles [10,980.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,717 miles [7,591.3 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 Landstad 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Landstad) 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 Landstad 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 Landstad. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.6605, Longitude: -88.4437       In this case, the coordinates for Landstad have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.94 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.302 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.142 degrees.