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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 Oakland Heights, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Oakland Heights 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 Oakland Heights:
    • 43.066107, -89.412064
    • 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 Oakland Heights
  • 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 Dane County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Dane County
    • Since Oakland Heights is near Green County and also Columbia County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Green County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Columbia 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 Oakland Heights

Communities Also Named Oakland Heights ...

We found ten communities that are also named Oakland Heights.

Within Wisconsin, the name Oakland Heights is unique.

Beyond Wisconsin, we know of ten communities that are located in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Jefferson County
      • This Oakland Heights is located in Jefferson County and lies 624 miles [1,004.2 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Oakland Heights that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Jefferson County community of Oakland Heights.
      • Pope 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 Arkansas community of Oakland Heights [Pope County].
    • Florida
      • Hillsborough County
      • This Oakland Heights is located in Hillsborough County and lies 1,114 miles [1,792.8 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Oakland Heights that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Oakland Heights.
    • Georgia
      • Bartow County
      • This Oakland Heights is located in Bartow County and lies 659 miles [1,060.6 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Oakland Heights that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bartow County community of Oakland Heights.
    • Massachusetts
      • Worcester County
      • This Oakland Heights is located in Worcester County and lies 895 miles [1,440.4 km]<1> to the east of the Oakland Heights that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Worcester County community of Oakland Heights.
    • North Carolina
      • Davie County
      • This Oakland Heights is located in Davie County and lies 678 miles [1,091.1 km]<1> to the southeast of the Oakland Heights that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Davie County community of Oakland Heights.
      • Iredell County
      • This Oakland Heights is located in Iredell County and lies 676 miles [1,087.9 km] to the southeast of the Oakland Heights that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Iredell County community of Oakland Heights.
      • Rutherford County
      • This Oakland Heights is located in Rutherford County and lies 667 miles [1,073.4 km] to the southeast of the Oakland Heights that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rutherford County community of Oakland Heights.
    • South Carolina
      • Horry County
      • This Oakland Heights is located in Horry County and lies 860 miles [1,384 km]<1> to the southeast of the Oakland Heights that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Horry County community of Oakland Heights.
    • Tennessee
      • Montgomery County
      • This Oakland Heights is located in Montgomery County and lies 462 miles [743.5 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Oakland Heights that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Montgomery County community of Oakland Heights.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Oakland Heights ...

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.

  • Catfish ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Catfish is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catfish
  • Darwin ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Darwin is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darwin
  • Elmside
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Elmside is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmside
  • Five Points
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Five Points is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
  • Hope
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Hope is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hope
  • Lakeview
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Lakeview is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
  • Maple Bluff
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Maple Bluff is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Bluff
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,307 people
  • Oak Hall
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Oak Hall is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Hall
  • Pheasant Branch
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Pheasant Branch is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pheasant Branch
  • Pilgrim Village
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Pilgrim Village is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilgrim Village
  • Red Bridge Crossing
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Red Bridge Crossing is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bridge Crossing
  • Seminary Springs
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Seminary Springs is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seminary Springs

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

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

  • Madison, which is the Seat of Dane County, lies just to the Northeast.
  • Madison, which is the State Capital of Wisconsin, lies just to the northeast (NE).
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 705 miles [1,134.6 km]<1> to the east southeast (ESE). If you could drive a straight line from Oakland Heights to White House, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 40 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 28 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,188 miles [9,958.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,933 miles [11,157.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,824 miles [7,763.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

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- Oakland Heights) 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 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 Oakland Heights 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 Oakland Heights 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 Oakland Heights. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.0661, Longitude: -89.4121       In this case, the coordinates for Oakland Heights have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.624 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 312.854 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.123 degrees.