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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 Huntley, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Huntley 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 Huntley:
    • 41.933098, -104.146946
    • 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 Huntley
  • 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 Huntley ...

We found fourteen communities that share the name Huntley.

Within Wyoming, the name Huntley is unique.

Beyond Wyoming, we know of another fourteen communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these fourteen communities, twelve are located in the United States and two are in Canada.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • California
      • San Joaquin County
      • This Huntley is located in San Joaquin County and lies 934 miles [1,503.1 km]<1> to the west southwest of the Huntley that is located in Goshen County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the San Joaquin County community of Huntley.
    • Delaware
      • Kent County
      • This Huntley is located in Kent County and lies 1,507 miles [2,425.3 km]<1> to the east of the Huntley that is located in Goshen County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Kent County community of Huntley.
    • Illinois
      • McHenry County
      • This Huntley is located in McHenry County and lies 804 miles [1,293.9 km]<1> to the east of the Huntley that is located in Goshen County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the McHenry County community of Huntley.
    • Minnesota
      • Faribault County
      • This Huntley is located in Faribault County and lies 516 miles [830.4 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Huntley that is located in Goshen County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Faribault County community of Huntley.
    • Mississippi
      • Jefferson 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 Mississippi community of Huntley [Jefferson County].
    • Missouri
      • Saint Louis 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 Missouri community of Huntley [Saint Louis County].
    • Montana
      • Yellowstone County
      • This Huntley is located in Yellowstone County and lies 342 miles [550.4 km]<1> to the northwest of the Huntley that is located in Goshen County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Yellowstone County community of Huntley.
    • Nebraska
      • Harlan County
      • This Huntley is located in Harlan County and lies 279 miles [449 km]<1> to the east southeast of the Huntley that is located in Goshen County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Harlan County community of Huntley.
    • North Carolina
      • Sampson County
      • This Huntley is located in Sampson County and lies 1,457 miles [2,344.8 km]<1> to the east of the Huntley that is located in Goshen County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Sampson County community of Huntley.
    • Ontario
      • This Huntley lies 1,419 miles [2,283.7 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Huntley that is located in Goshen County.
    • Pennsylvania
      • Cameron County
      • This Huntley is located in Cameron County and lies 1,336 miles [2,150.1 km]<1> to the east of the Huntley that is located in Goshen County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Cameron County community of Huntley.
      • Clearfield County
      • This Huntley is located in Clearfield County and lies 1,326 miles [2,134 km] to the east of the Huntley that is located in Goshen County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Clearfield County community of Huntley.
    • Prince Edward Island
      • This Huntley lies 1,983 miles [3,191.3 km]<1> to the east northeast of the Huntley that is located in Goshen County.
    • Washington
      • Whitman County
      • This Huntley is located in Whitman County and lies 748 miles [1,203.8 km]<1> to the northwest of the Huntley that is located in Goshen County.
      • For more information, please visit our profile page for the Whitman County community of Huntley.

Curious and Interesting Names Near Huntley ...

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.

  • Goodland
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Goodland have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodland
    • Goodland is located in Goshen County
  • Hartman
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hartman have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartman
    • Hartman is located in Scotts Bluff County (NE)
  • Hawk Springs
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Henry
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henry
    • Henry is located in Furnas County (NE)
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 104 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Henry <5>
  • Holly
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Holly have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly
    • Holly is located in Goshen County
  • Joyce
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Joyce have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joyce
    • Joyce is located in Scotts Bluff County (NE)
  • Roach
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Roach have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roach
    • Roach is located in Scotts Bluff County (NE)
  • Silver Tip
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silver Tip have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Tip
    • Silver Tip is located in Goshen County
  • Veteran
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)

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

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

  • Torrington, which is the Seat of Goshen County, lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<1> to the north. If you could walk a straight line from Huntley to Torrington, 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.
  • Cheyenne, which is the State Capital of Wyoming, lies 65 miles [104.6 km] to the south southwest (SSW). 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 1,434 miles [2,307.8 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 56 days and walking would take 82 days.
  • The shortest distance<7> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,722 miles [10,818 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<8>
  • The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,486 miles [12,047.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<9>
  • The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,424 miles [8,729.1 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<10>

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Huntley. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Wyoming: www.wyo.gov/

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- Huntley) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Huntley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.9331, Longitude: -104.1469    
<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 Huntley, 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 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 Huntley 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>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.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Huntley 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 326.081 degrees.
<9>The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 324.753 degrees.
<10>The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 317.235 degrees.









 

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