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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 Lemington, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Lemington 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 Lemington:
    • 45.759124, -91.352940
    • 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 Lemington
  • 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 Sawyer County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Sawyer County
    • Since Lemington is near Washburn County and also Rusk County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Washburn County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Rusk 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 Lemington

Communities Also Named Lemington ...

We found one communities that are also named Lemington.

Within Wisconsin, the name Lemington is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Vermont
      • Essex 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 Vermont community of Lemington [Essex County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Lemington ...

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.

  • Birchwood
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Birchwood is located in Washburn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birchwood
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 426 people
  • Chief Lake
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Chief Lake is located in Sawyer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chief Lake
  • Edgewater
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Edgewater is located in Sawyer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewater
  • Imalone
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Imalone is located in Rusk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Imalone
  • Little Round Lake
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Little Round Lake is located in Sawyer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Round Lake
  • Meteor
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Meteor is located in Sawyer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meteor
  • Reserve
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Reserve is located in Sawyer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reserve
  • Stone Lake
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Stone Lake is located in Sawyer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Lake
  • Winter
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Winter is located in Sawyer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winter
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 294 people

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

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

  • Hayward, which is the Seat of Sawyer County, lies 18 miles [29 km]<2> to the north northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Lemington to Hayward, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just over 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 208 miles [334.7 km] to the south southeast (SSE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 9 days and walking would take 12 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 868 miles [1,396.9 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take most of two days, a buggy would take 34 days and walking would take 50 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,120 miles [9,849.2 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,874 miles [11,062.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,780 miles [7,692.7 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 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 Lemington 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 from Point A (ie- Lemington) 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 Lemington 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 Lemington. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.7591, Longitude: -91.3529       In this case, the coordinates for Lemington have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 316.94 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 314.724 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.376 degrees.