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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 Moxa, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Moxa 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 Moxa:
- 41.667731, -110.070707
- 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 Moxa
- 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 Lincoln County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Lincoln County
- Since Moxa is near Uinta County and also Sweetwater County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Uinta County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Sweetwater 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 Moxa
Communities Also Named Moxa ...
We found one communities that are also named Moxa.
There is one other community in Wyoming that is also named Moxa.
Beyond Wyoming.
- Communities Located In Wyoming ...
- Uinta County
- We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Moxa [Uinta County].
Curious and Interesting Names Near Moxa ...
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.
- Bryan ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Bryan is located in Sweetwater County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryan
- Carter
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Carter is located in Uinta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carter
- Diamondville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Frontier
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Little America
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Opal
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Peru
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Peru is located in Sweetwater County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peru
- Rocky Crossing
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Rocky Crossing is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Crossing
How Far From Moxa 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 Moxa to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<3> beginning in Moxa and extending to:
- Kemmerer, which is the Seat of Lincoln County, lies 25 miles [40.2 km]<3> to the west northwest. If you could walk a straight line from Moxa to Kemmerer, 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.
- Cheyenne, which is the State Capital of Wyoming, lies 274 miles [441 km] to the east (E). 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 White House (Washington, DC) is 1,739 miles [2,798.6 km] to the east (E). Driving would take most of three days, a buggy would take 68 days and walking would take 99 days.
- The shortest distance<5> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 6,898 miles [11,101.3 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<6>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,666 miles [12,337.2 km] and it lies to the north northeast (NNE).<7>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,638 miles [9,073.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<8>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Moxa 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. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Moxa) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Moxa 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 Moxa. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.6677, Longitude: -110.0707 In this case, the coordinates for Moxa have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 330.581 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 329.986 degrees. |
| <8> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 320.635 degrees. |
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