We were less than a quarter of a mile from the road, and we could trace its shape from the ribbon of powder smoke and dust that hung over it.

We ran east for about half a mile before we turned back to the road, panting from the effort and soaked with sweat.

They gathered roots, bulbs, odd ferns, leaves, and bits of resin from the rare Santa Lucia fir, which exists only on a forty-five mile strip on the westerly side of these mountains.

Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer's Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A. J. Armstrong, occupied by a Mexican, his wife, and an old trapper.

It came from the top of the Reef not half a mile away.

It's perhaps a mile from here where we sit.

While bishop he was largely responsible for the construction of a large organ in the cathedral, audible from over a mile ( 1600 m ) away and said to require more than 24 men to operate.

The island of Inchcolm, or Island ( Gaelic innis ) of Columba, a quarter of a mile from the shore, forms part of the parish of Aberdour.

Bursa Yenisehir Airport is 20 mile away from city center.

Craigowan Lodge is a seven-bedroom stone house about a mile from the main castle in Balmoral.

* Porter Square, about a mile north on Massachusetts Avenue from Harvard Square, is formed by the junction of Massachusetts and Somerville Avenues, and includes part of the city of Somerville.

This service involves installing a special telephone interface at the customer's premises that converts the analog signals from the customer's in-home wiring into a digital signal, which is then sent on the local loop ( replacing the analog last mile, or Plain old telephone service ( POTS )) to the company's switching center, where it is connected to the Public switched telephone network ( PSTN ).

The Tholos is located approximately a half a mile ( 800 m ) from the main ruins at Delphi.

The gymnasium, which is half a mile away from the main sanctuary, was a series of buildings used by the youth of Delphi.

The race follows a straight course from a standing start over a measured distance, most commonly ¼ mile () for most cars, with a shorter for some

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, hundreds of religious documents dated between 150 BCE and 70 CE were found in caves near the ancient settlement of Qumran, about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea ( presently in the West Bank ).

According to local West Memphis police officers, on the evening of May 5, 1993, at 8: 42 p. m., workers in the Bojangles ' restaurant about a mile from the crime scene in Robin Hood Hills reported seeing a black male who seemed " mentally disoriented " inside the ladies ' room of the restaurant.

In fisheries issues, the United States claims jurisdiction for the management of coastal fisheries up to 200 mile ( 370 km ) from its coast, but excludes highly migratory species ; Ecuador, on the other hand, claims a 200-mile ( 370-km ) territorial sea, and imposes license fees and fines on foreign fishing vessels in the area, making no exceptions for catches of migratory species.

Dartmouth College was established in 1769 beside the Common at a village called the Plain — an extensive and level tract of land a mile ( 1. 6 kilometers ) from the Connecticut River, and about 150 feet ( 46 meters ) above it.

The highest point in the county is 803 feet ( 245 m ) above sea level, a quarter mile ( 400 m ) from the village of Hastoe near Tring.

The site is marked and is one mile from the unincorporated community known today as Monroe Hall, Virginia.

The tenth Umayyad caliph, Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, built a palatial complex known as Khirbet al-Mafjar about one mile north of Tell as-Sultan in 743, and two mosques, a courtyard, mosaics, and other items from it can still be seen in situ today, despite its having been partially destroyed in an earthquake in 747.

A large open plain, just over 1 mile (~ 2 km ) wide, lay between Taviers and Ramillies, but unlike Blenheim, there was no stream to hinder the cavalry.

On the early phonograph's reproductive capabilities he writes " It sounded to my ear like someone singing about half a mile away, or talking at the other end of a big hall ; but the effect was rather pleasant, save for a peculiar nasal quality wholly due to the mechanism, though there was little of the scratching which later was a prominent feature of the flat disc.

; Contiguous zone: Beyond the 12 nautical mile limit, there is a further 12 nautical miles from the territorial sea baseline limit, the contiguous zone, in which a state can continue to enforce laws in four specific areas: customs, taxation, immigration and pollution, if the infringement started within the state's territory or territorial waters, or if this infringement is about to occur within the state's territory or territorial waters.

By the standards of his time a gentleman like Wren would not generally join an artisan body ; however the workmen of St Paul's cathedral would naturally have sought the patronage or " interest " of their employer, and within Wren's lifetime there was a predominantly gentlemen's Lodge at the Rummer and Grapes, a mile upriver at Westminster ( where Wren had been to School ).

Between Tangshan and Nanking barricades were ready along the highway every mile or so, and nearer the capital there raged huge fires set by the Chinese in the course of clearing the countryside of buildings that might protect the invaders from gunfire.

It is possible that there may have been a two-pronged attack by Godwinson on Hardrada's army, making use of both the ford and perhaps the remnants of the earlier Roman bridge one mile to the south, information of which, and of the two road routes to the location from York, could have been gathered from Godwinson's earlier occupation of the city of York.

At a meadow a mile from Edinburgh, there was a pavilion where Sir Patrick Hamilton and Patrick Sinclair played and fought in the guise of knights defending their ladies.

Present-day State Route 288 and State Route 711 run about a mile east of the former town, where the 1895 Huguenot Memorial Chapel and Monument, the fourth church building constructed there, is maintained by the Huguenot Society.

A murder had occurred and Marion County didn't want to have the trial, so a section one mile wide and eighteen miles long was ceded to Chase County to ensure the murder had occurred there.

A murder had occurred and Marion County didn't want to have the trial, so a section one mile wide and eighteen miles long was ceded to Chase County to ensure the murder had occurred there.

With the fact that the Hootses can only use their " Burger King " name in the Mattoon area and that the Burger King chain can use the name in the United States excluding the Mattoon area after a 1968 trademark lawsuit, there is a 20 mile radius centering the Hootses ' Burger King, and the chain cannot have one within the radius.

While there, Fessenden, experimenting with a high-frequency spark transmitter, successfully transmitted speech on December 23, 1900 over a distance of about 1. 6 kilometers ( one mile ), which appears to have been the first audio radio transmission.

From there a timber revetment and groyne system, designed and constructed in 1976, runs eastwards for 2 km ( just over a mile ) to West Runton Gap.

From there, a Camp truck would transport their gear / footlockers and the Scouts would hike one mile into the camp.

As of the census of 2010, there were 30, 352 people, 11, 016 households, and 6, 482 families residing in the city. The population density was 1, 104. 8 people per square mile ( 426. 6 / km² ).

As of the census of 2000, there were 9, 021 people, 3, 769 households, and 2, 431 families residing in the city, and its population density was 1, 227. 1 people per square mile ( 473. 9 / km² ).

As of the 2000 census there were 68 housing units at an average density of 1, 079. 8 per square mile ( 437. 6 / km² ).

There is also Berrien Peanut Company two and a half miles outside of Enigma and there was once a skating rink about a mile from Berrien Peanut Company.

In the official census of 2000, when there were 85, 781 people, 39, 288 households, and 19, 683 families residing in the CDP, the population density was 2, 274. 1 people per square mile ( 878. 1 / km² ).

As of the census of 2000, there were 441 housing units at an average density of 744. 4 per square mile ( 288. 6 / km² ).

Prior to the plat of the village, there was an inn three-quarters of a mile east of the present site, called " Tantivy " or " TAN-TI-VY ".

One of the bank tellers working there that day thought their request was extremely strange since she and her family lived on the only farm that was " one mile north of Adeline ", and the farm was not up for sale.

At seven to ten mile intervals there were 38 stops between the Keokuk and Fort Dodge.

( Aside from the fact that the office would later become the Soldier Post office, it was actually 1 mile north and < sup > 1 </ sup >/< sub > 4 </ sub > mile east of the current city limits before being moved there in late 1878 ) The name was derived from the settler ( Smith, of Nemaha County ) who sold the land to William Cline for the purpose of providing the area with a post office.