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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 Oak Orchard, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Oak Orchard 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 Oak Orchard:
    • 44.781381, -87.925937
    • 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 Oak Orchard
  • 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 Oconto County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Oconto County
    • Since Oak Orchard is near Door County and also Brown County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Door 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 Oak Orchard

Communities Also Named Oak Orchard ...

We found six communities that are also named Oak Orchard.

Within Wisconsin, the name Oak Orchard is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Delaware
      • Sussex County
      • This Oak Orchard is located in Sussex County and lies 782 miles [1,258.5 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Oak Orchard that is located in Oconto County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sussex County community of Oak Orchard.
    • Maryland
      • Frederick County
      • This Oak Orchard is located in Frederick County and lies 660 miles [1,062.2 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Oak Orchard that is located in Oconto County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Frederick County community of Oak Orchard.
      • Prince George's 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 Maryland community of Oak Orchard [Prince George's County].
    • New York
      • Onondaga County
      • This Oak Orchard is located in Onondaga County and lies 591 miles [951.1 km]<1> to the east of the Oak Orchard that is located in Oconto County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Onondaga County community of Oak Orchard.
      • Orleans County
      • This Oak Orchard is located in Orleans County and lies 487 miles [783.8 km] to the east of the Oak Orchard that is located in Oconto County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Orleans County community of Oak Orchard.
    • Ontario
      • This Oak Orchard lies 466 miles [750 km]<1> to the east of the Oak Orchard that is located in Oconto County.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Oak Orchard ...

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.

  • Champion
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Champion is located in Brown County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Champion
  • Chase
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Chase is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chase
  • County Line
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • County Line is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for County Line
  • Edgewater Beach
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Edgewater Beach is located in Brown County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewater Beach
  • Lena
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Lena is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lena
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 540 people
  • Little Suamico
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Little Suamico is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Suamico
  • Red Banks
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Red Banks is located in Brown County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Banks
  • Shoemaker Point
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Shoemaker Point is located in Door County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoemaker Point
  • Tremble
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Tremble is located in Brown County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tremble

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

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

  • Oconto, which is the Seat of Oconto County, lies just to the North Northeast.
  • Madison, which is the State Capital of Wisconsin, lies 138 miles [222.1 km]<1> to the south southwest (SSW). If you could drive a straight line from Oak Orchard to Madison, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 6 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 691 miles [1,112.1 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 27 days and walking would take 40 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,052 miles [9,739.7 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,799 miles [10,941.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,692 miles [7,551 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- Oak Orchard) 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 Oak Orchard 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 Oak Orchard 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 Oak Orchard. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.7814, Longitude: -87.9259       In this case, the coordinates for Oak Orchard have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 314.583 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 311.913 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.831 degrees.