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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 Primrose, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Primrose 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 Primrose:
    • 42.901389, -89.662345
    • 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 Primrose
  • 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 Primrose is near Green County and also Iowa 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 Iowa 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 Primrose

Communities Also Named Primrose ...

We found seventeen communities that are also named Primrose.

Within Wisconsin, the name Primrose is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alaska
      • This Primrose lies 2,708 miles [4,358.1 km]<1> to the northwest of the Primrose that is located in Dane County.
    • Georgia
      • Meriwether County
      • This Primrose is located in Meriwether County and lies 724 miles [1,165.2 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Primrose that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Meriwether County community of Primrose.
    • Iowa
      • Lee County
      • This Primrose is located in Lee County and lies 184 miles [296.1 km]<1> to the southwest of the Primrose that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lee County community of Primrose.
    • Kentucky
      • Lee County
      • This Primrose is located in Lee County and lies 485 miles [780.5 km]<1> to the southeast of the Primrose that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Lee County community of Primrose.
    • Maryland
      • Baltimore 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 Primrose [Baltimore County].
    • Montana
      • Missoula County
      • This Primrose is located in Missoula County and lies 1,224 miles [1,969.8 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Primrose that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Missoula County community of Primrose.
    • Nebraska
      • Boone County
      • This Primrose is located in Boone County and lies 446 miles [717.8 km]<1> to the west of the Primrose that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Boone County community of Primrose.
    • New Brunswick
      • 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 New Brunswick community of Primrose.
    • New York
      • Westchester 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 New York community of Primrose [Westchester County].
    • Ohio
      • Williams County
      • This Primrose is located in Williams County and lies 279 miles [449 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Primrose that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Williams County community of Primrose.
    • Ontario
      • This Primrose lies 483 miles [777.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Primrose that is located in Dane County.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Schuylkill County
      • This Primrose is located in Schuylkill County and lies 704 miles [1,133 km]<1> to the east of the Primrose that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Schuylkill County community of Primrose.
      • Washington County
      • This Primrose is located in Washington County and lies 515 miles [828.8 km] to the east southeast of the Primrose that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Washington County community of Primrose.
    • Prince Edward Island
      • This Primrose lies 1,346 miles [2,166.2 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Primrose that is located in Dane County.
    • Rhode Island
      • Providence County
      • This Primrose is located in Providence County and lies 923 miles [1,485.4 km]<1> to the east of the Primrose that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Providence County community of Primrose.
    • Texas
      • Tarrant County
      • This Primrose is located in Tarrant County and lies 826 miles [1,329.3 km]<1> to the southwest of the Primrose that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Tarrant County community of Primrose.
      • Van Zandt County
      • This Primrose is located in Van Zandt County and lies 791 miles [1,273 km] to the south southwest of the Primrose that is located in Dane County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Van Zandt County community of Primrose.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Primrose ...

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.

  • Blue Mounds
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Blue Mounds is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Mounds
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 990 people
  • Five Points
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Five Points is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
  • Forward
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Forward is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forward
  • Little Norway
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Little Norway is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Norway
  • Moscow
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Moscow is located in Iowa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moscow
  • Mount Horeb
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Mount Horeb is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Horeb
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,563 people
  • Oak Hall
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Oak Hall is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Hall
  • Postville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Postville is located in Green County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Postville

How Far From Primrose to ...

We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers & Almanacs that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Primrose to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Madison, which is the Seat of Dane County, lies 17 miles [27.4 km]<1> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Primrose to Madison, with an average speed<3> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take most of 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 17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast (NE). The buggy would take five to six hours and walking would take most of a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 713 miles [1,147.5 km] to the east southeast (ESE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take just about two full days, a buggy would take 28 days and walking would take 41 days.
  • The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,205 miles [9,986 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,950 miles [11,184.9 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,841 miles [7,790.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Primrose) 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 Primrose 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 Primrose 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 Primrose. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.9014, Longitude: -89.6623       In this case, the coordinates for Primrose have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 315.795 degrees.
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 313.025 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 309.298 degrees.