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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 Middle Village, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Middle Village 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 Middle Village:
    • 44.933866, -88.739549
    • 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 Middle Village
  • 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 Middle Village is near Menominee County and also Langlade County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Menominee County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Langlade 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 Middle Village

Communities Also Named Middle Village ...

We found four communities that are also named Middle Village.

Within Wisconsin, the name Middle Village is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Michigan
      • Emmet County
      • This Middle Village is located in Emmet County and lies 181 miles [291.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Middle Village that is located in Shawano County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Emmet County community of Middle Village.
    • New York
      • Otsego County
      • This Middle Village is located in Otsego County and lies 706 miles [1,136.2 km]<1> to the east of the Middle Village that is located in Shawano County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Otsego County community of Middle Village.
      • Queens County
      • This Middle Village is located in Queens County and lies 805 miles [1,295.5 km] to the east southeast of the Middle Village that is located in Shawano County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Queens County community of Middle Village.
    • Nova Scotia
      • 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 Nova Scotia community of Middle Village.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Middle Village ...

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.

  • Bonita
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Bonita is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonita
  • Breed
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Breed is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breed
  • Cecil
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Cecil is located in Shawano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cecil
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 548 people
  • Elton
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Elton is located in Langlade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elton
  • Embarrass
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • 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 southwest)
    • Five Corners is located in Shawano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Corners
  • Four Corners
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Four Corners is located in Langlade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Corners
  • Hintz
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Hintz is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hintz
  • Legend Lake
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Legend Lake is located in Menominee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Legend Lake
  • Marion
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Marion is located in Waupaca County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,167 people
  • Red River
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Red River is located in Shawano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red River

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

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

  • Shawano, which is the Seat of Shawano County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the south southeast. If you could walk a straight line from Middle Village 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 132 miles [212.4 km] to the south southwest (SSW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than three hours, a buggy would take 6 days and walking would take 8 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 730 miles [1,174.8 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 29 days and walking would take 42 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,073 miles [9,773.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,821 miles [10,977.3 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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Middle Village) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Middle Village 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>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 Middle Village 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 Middle Village. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.9339, Longitude: -88.7395       In this case, the coordinates for Middle Village have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.137 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.563 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.214 degrees.