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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 Turtle Creek, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Turtle 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 Turtle Creek:
    • 38.043064, -81.871259
    • 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 Turtle 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 Boone County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Boone County
    • Since Turtle Creek is near Lincoln County and also Logan County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Lincoln County
    • Open the eBird sighting report for Logan 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 Turtle Creek

Communities Also Named Turtle Creek ...

We found nine communities that are also named Turtle Creek.

Within West Virginia, the name Turtle Creek is unique.

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

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Arizona
      • Maricopa County
      • This Turtle Creek is located in Maricopa County and lies 1,709 miles [2,750.4 km]<1> to the west of the Turtle Creek that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Maricopa County community of Turtle Creek.
    • Arkansas
      • Pulaski County
      • This Turtle Creek is located in Pulaski County and lies 627 miles [1,009.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Turtle Creek that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Pulaski County community of Turtle Creek.
    • Florida
      • Hillsborough County
      • This Turtle Creek is located in Hillsborough County and lies 688 miles [1,107.2 km]<1> to the south of the Turtle Creek that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Hillsborough County community of Turtle Creek.
    • Georgia
      • Houston County
      • This Turtle Creek is located in Houston County and lies 390 miles [627.6 km]<1> to the south southwest of the Turtle Creek that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Houston County community of Turtle Creek.
    • Indiana
      • Grant 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 Indiana community of Turtle Creek [Grant County].
    • Mississippi
      • Rankin County
      • This Turtle Creek is located in Rankin County and lies 603 miles [970.4 km]<1> to the southwest of the Turtle Creek that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Rankin County community of Turtle Creek.
    • New Brunswick
      • This Turtle Creek lies 1,033 miles [1,662.5 km]<1> to the northeast of the Turtle Creek that is located in Boone County.
    • Ohio
      • Warren 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 Ohio community of Turtle Creek [Warren County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Allegheny County
      • This Turtle Creek is located in Allegheny County and lies 196 miles [315.4 km]<1> to the north northeast of the Turtle Creek that is located in Boone County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Allegheny County community of Turtle Creek.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Turtle 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.

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

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

  • Madison, which is the Seat of Boone County, lies just to the East Northeast.
  • Charleston, which is the State Capital of West Virginia, lies 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> to the north northeast (NNE). If you could walk a straight line from Turtle Creek to Charleston, with an average speed<4> of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour, it would take just about two full days to make the trip. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take most of a day.
  • The White House (Washington, DC) is 267 miles [429.7 km] to the east northeast (ENE). Driving, with an average speed of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, would take four to five hours, a buggy would take 11 days and walking would take 16 days.
  • The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,137 miles [9,876.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 6,850 miles [11,024 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 4,726 miles [7,605.8 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Turtle 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 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 Turtle 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 Turtle 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 Turtle Creek. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.0431, Longitude: -81.8713    
<6>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 310.812 degrees.
<7>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 306.639 degrees.
<8>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 307.064 degrees.