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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 Sedalia, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Sedalia and the surrounding area.

  • 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 Sedalia:
    • 39.359808, -80.578708
    • 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 Sedalia
  • 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 Doddridge County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Doddridge County
    • Since Sedalia is near Harrison County and also Wetzel County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Harrison County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Wetzel 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 Sedalia

Communities Also Named Sedalia ...

We found thirteen communities that are also named Sedalia.

Within West Virginia, the name Sedalia is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alberta
      • This Sedalia lies 1,668 miles [2,684.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Sedalia that is located in Doddridge County.
    • Arkansas
      • Benton County
      • This community is historic<2> and we have very little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Sedalia [Benton County].
    • Colorado
      • Douglas County
      • This Sedalia is located in Douglas County and lies 1,297 miles [2,087.3 km]<1> to the west of the Sedalia that is located in Doddridge County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Douglas County community of Sedalia.
    • Indiana
      • Clinton County
      • This Sedalia is located in Clinton County and lies 322 miles [518.2 km]<1> to the west northwest of the Sedalia that is located in Doddridge County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clinton County community of Sedalia.
    • Kentucky
      • Graves County
      • This Sedalia is located in Graves County and lies 475 miles [764.4 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Sedalia that is located in Doddridge County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Graves County community of Sedalia.
    • Missouri
      • Pettis County
      • This Sedalia is located in Pettis County and lies 679 miles [1,092.7 km]<1> to the west of the Sedalia that is located in Doddridge County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pettis County community of Sedalia.
    • North Carolina
      • Guilford County
      • This Sedalia is located in Guilford County and lies 232 miles [373.4 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Sedalia that is located in Doddridge County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Guilford County community of Sedalia.
    • North Dakota
      • Morton County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Sedalia [Morton County].
    • Ohio
      • Madison County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Ohio community of Sedalia [Madison County].
    • South Carolina
      • Union County
      • This Sedalia is located in Union County and lies 334 miles [537.5 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Sedalia that is located in Doddridge County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Union County community of Sedalia.
    • Texas
      • Collin County
      • This Sedalia is located in Collin County and lies 973 miles [1,565.9 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Sedalia that is located in Doddridge County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Collin County community of Sedalia.
    • Virginia
      • Bedford County
      • This Sedalia is located in Bedford County and lies 143 miles [230.1 km]<1> to the south southeast of the Sedalia that is located in Doddridge County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Bedford County community of Sedalia.
    • Washington
      • Lincoln County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<3> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Sedalia [Lincoln County].

Curious and Interesting Names Near Sedalia ...

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.

  • Big Battle ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Big Battle is located in Doddridge County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Battle
  • Brown
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Brown is located in Harrison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown
  • Center Point
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Center Point is located in Doddridge County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center Point
  • Dale
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Dale is located in Tyler County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dale
  • Flint
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Flint is located in Doddridge County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint
  • Industrial
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Industrial is located in Doddridge County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Industrial
  • Lake Floyd
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Lake Floyd is located in Harrison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Floyd
  • Long Run
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Long Run is located in Doddridge County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Run
  • Marshville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Marshville is located in Harrison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshville
  • Olive
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Olive is located in Harrison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olive

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

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

  • West Union, which is the Seat of Doddridge County, lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<1> to the west southwest. If you could walk a straight line from Sedalia to West Union, 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 89 miles [143.2 km] to the southwest (SW). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take less than two hours, a buggy would take most of three days and walking would take 5 days.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 192 miles [309 km] to the east (E). Driving would take a little over three hours, a buggy would take 8 days and walking would take 11 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,025 miles [9,696.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,740 miles [10,847 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,616 miles [7,428.7 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Sedalia) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>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 Sedalia, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 Sedalia 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.
<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 Sedalia 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 Sedalia. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.3598, Longitude: -80.5787       In this case, the coordinates for Sedalia have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 309.992 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 305.90 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 306.068 degrees.