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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 Lee Creek, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Lee Creek 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 Lee Creek:
    • 39.153133, -81.739576
    • 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 Lee Creek
  • 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 Wood County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Wood County
    • Since Lee Creek is near Meigs County and also Athens County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Meigs County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Athens 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 Lee Creek

Communities Also Named Lee Creek ...

We found three communities that are also named Lee Creek.

Within West Virginia, the name Lee Creek is unique.

Beyond West Virginia, we know of three communities that are located in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, .

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arkansas
      • Crawford County
      • This Lee Creek is located in Crawford County and lies 731 miles [1,176.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Lee Creek that is located in Wood County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Crawford County community of Lee Creek.
    • British Columbia
      • This Lee Creek lies 1,987 miles [3,197.8 km]<1> to the northwest of the Lee Creek that is located in Wood County.
    • North Carolina
      • Beaufort 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 North Carolina community of Lee Creek [Beaufort County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Lee Creek ...

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.

  • Eden
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Eden is located in Meigs County (OH)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden
  • Hockingport
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Hockingport is located in Athens County (OH)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hockingport
  • Joppa
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Joppa is located in Meigs County (OH)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joppa
  • Lone Cedar
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Lone Cedar is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Cedar
  • Long Bottom
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Manganese ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Manganese is located in Wood County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manganese
  • Neptune
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Neptune is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neptune
  • New England
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • New England is located in Wood County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New England
  • Pond Creek
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Pond Creek is located in Wood County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pond Creek
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Powers ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Powers is located in Wood County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powers
    • Randolph Landing
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Randolph Landing is located in Meigs County (OH)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph Landing
    • Reedsville
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Reedsville is located in Meigs County (OH)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reedsville
    • Rushville
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Rushville is located in Meigs County (OH)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rushville
    • Success
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Success is located in Meigs County (OH)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Success
    • Torch
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Torch is located in Athens County (OH)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torch

How Far From Lee Creek 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 Lee Creek to various places of note, such as the White House.

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

  • Parkersburg, which is the Seat of Wood County, lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<1> to the northeast. If you could walk a straight line from Lee Creek to Parkersburg, with an average speed<4> 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.
  • Charleston, which is the State Capital of West Virginia, lies 55 miles [88.5 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 over two days and walking would take most of three days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 252 miles [405.6 km] to the east (E). Driving would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 10 days and walking would take 15 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,081 miles [9,786.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • 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).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,674 miles [7,522.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lee Creek) 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 Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's 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 Lee Creek 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're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>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 Lee Creek 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 Lee Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.1531, Longitude: -81.7396       In this case, the coordinates for Lee Creek have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.709 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.686 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.649 degrees.