Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Pilot Knob, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Pilot Knob and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Pilot Knob
- 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 Pilot Knob:
- 43.987473, -89.618180
- 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.
- The Heavens-Above Website, centered on Pilot Knob
- 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 Adams County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- eBird sighting report for Adams County
- Since Pilot Knob is near Waushara County and also Marquette County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- eBird sighting report for Waushara County
- eBird sighting report for Marquette 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:
- Waymark.com
Communities Also Named Pilot Knob ...
We found nine communities that share the name Pilot Knob.
Within Wisconsin, the name Pilot Knob is unique.
Beyond Wisconsin, we know of another nine communities that are located throughout in the United States.
- Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- California
- San Diego 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 California community of Pilot Knob [San Diego County].
- Indiana
- Crawford County
- This Pilot Knob is located in Crawford County and lies 428 miles [688.8 km]<2> to the south southeast of the Pilot Knob that is located in Adams County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Crawford County community of Pilot Knob.
- Kansas
- Harper 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 Kansas community of Pilot Knob [Harper County].
- Leavenworth County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Pilot Knob [Leavenworth County].
- Missouri
- Iron County
- This Pilot Knob is located in Iron County and lies 442 miles [711.3 km]<2> to the south of the Pilot Knob that is located in Adams County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Iron County community of Pilot Knob.
- New York
- Warren County
- This Pilot Knob is located in Warren County and lies 796 miles [1,281 km]<2> to the east of the Pilot Knob that is located in Adams County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Warren County community of Pilot Knob.
- Tennessee
- Greene County
- This Pilot Knob is located in Greene County and lies 636 miles [1,023.5 km]<2> to the southeast of the Pilot Knob that is located in Adams County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Greene County community of Pilot Knob.
- Sumner 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 Tennessee community of Pilot Knob [Sumner County].
- Texas
- Travis County
- This Pilot Knob is located in Travis County and lies 1,051 miles [1,691.4 km]<2> to the south southwest of the Pilot Knob that is located in Adams County.
- For more information, please visit our profile page for the Travis County community of Pilot Knob.
- California
Curious and Interesting Names Near Pilot Knob ...
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.
- Almond
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almond
- Almond is located in Portage County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 428 people
- Big Flats
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Flats
- Big Flats is located in Adams County
- Big Spring
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Big Spring have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Spring
- Big Spring is located in Adams County
- Cottonville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cottonville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonville
- Cottonville is located in Adams County
- Dakota
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east) - Endeavor
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south) - Friendship
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Friendship have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
- Friendship is located in Adams County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 676 people
- Grand Marsh
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grand Marsh have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Marsh
- Grand Marsh is located in Adams County
- Plainville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Plainville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainville
- Plainville is located in Adams County
- Silver Lake
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silver Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Lake
- Silver Lake is located in Waushara County
- Springbluff ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Springbluff have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springbluff
- Springbluff is located in Adams County
- Strongs Prairie
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strongs Prairie
- Strongs Prairie is located in Adams County
How Far From Pilot Knob 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 Pilot Knob to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers and using the location of where the historic<5> community of Pilot Knob once stood, the straight-line distance beginning in Pilot Knob and extending to:
- Friendship, which is the Seat of Adams County, lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> to the west. If you could walk a straight line from Pilot Knob to Friendship, with an average speed<6> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take four to five hours to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take a little over three hours.
- Madison, which is the State Capital of Wisconsin, lies 64 miles [103 km] to the south (S). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than an hour, a buggy would take about three full days and walking would take most of three days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 738 miles [1,187.7 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<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,150 miles [9,897.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,897 miles [11,099.6 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,792 miles [7,712 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Adams County: www.co.adams.wi.us/
The official website for State of Wisconsin: https://www.wisconsin.gov/
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 Pilot Knob 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Pilot Knob) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pilot Knob. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.9875, Longitude: -89.6182 In this case, the coordinates for Pilot Knob have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <3> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <4> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <5> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Pilot Knob, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <6> | 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. |
| <7> | 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 Pilot Knob to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.758 degrees. |
| <9> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 313.135 degrees. |
| <10> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 308.964 degrees. |