# How far do you live from Lebanon, Kansas? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763 "2012-04-14T15:39:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Methyl_Ethyl_Death)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/42 "2012-04-15T01:05:22Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > 89.6 miles for me according to Google. > > Holdrege, NE. > ZIP 68949 Oh well. It was fun while it lasted. Hi **Baker**. I used my zip code for better accuracy as well. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/43 "2012-04-15T01:08:20Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > How often do you visit Lebanon? I’ve never actually been through Lebanon. Even by north/central KS standards, it’s a\* tiny\* village. Smith Center is as close as I get and I only pass through it on my way to my Dad’s house. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/44 "2012-04-15T01:11:50Z")
> [@Kansas\_Beekeeper](#): > > 225 miles. > [@Shoeless](#): > > 237 for me. > [@Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](#): > > 199.8 miles. We might as well round that up to 200. > > If **baker** stays out of this thread I might be the winner. > > 😃 > [@Baker](#): > > No, you still have me beat. I uses my ZIP code, and entered Lebanon as the ending point. I came up with 203.8. > > So MED is still in the lead? > [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > 89.6 miles for me according to Google. > > Holdrege, NE. > ZIP 68949 > [@Satchmo](#): > > 170.7 miles, from Lincoln. Can’t beat Alpha, though. > ☹ You folks need to think about a Dopefest at Lebanon after the storm season slacks up and before it gets too hot (if it’s not already) and gather round the monument for pictures and what all. Anybody within 250 miles (more if they feel like the ride) ought to be invited. Might set a pattern for other weirdness of that sort. ---
**Author:** ![Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Methyl\_Ethyl\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Methyl_Ethyl_Death)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/45 "2012-04-15T01:13:38Z")
Count me in. ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/46 "2012-04-15T01:20:32Z")
351 miles for now. I’m packing for a move to Champaign-Urbana so soon I’ll be much further away. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/47 "2012-04-15T01:24:53Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > 2181 miles to me, but I’m not even in the US. > [@Sunspace](#): > > It knows nothing of Toronto, Ontario. From Hamilton, I used Google Maps and got 1858 km > [@Zeldar](#): > > Some of these (maybe all) can’t be right! I don’t think **Cat Whisperer** ’s number was supposed to be for Toronto. Calgary airport is in a very different part of Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/48 "2012-04-15T01:27:07Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Some of these (maybe all) can’t be right! Let me double-check with Google maps - 1403 miles, 23 hours for Calgary to Lebanon. Toronto to Lebanon - 1188 miles, 19 hours 55 mins. > [@GuanoLad](#): > > 14,800 km Are you the winner from the other end - furthest away? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/49 "2012-04-15T01:31:33Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > It knows nothing of Toronto, Ontario. It does, however, know YYZ. And the answer is 1176.3 miles. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/50 "2012-04-15T02:08:33Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > You folks need to think about a Dopefest at Lebanon after the storm season slacks up and before it gets too hot… I’m sorry, that season does not exist. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/51 "2012-04-15T02:15:06Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > I’m sorry, that season does not exist. I had a sneaky feeling I was talking nonsense, especially with the monster storms these days. I had no idea when I started this thread that Lebanon was going to be in the middle of all the bad weather. I just hope I didn’t contribute to jinxing anybody. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/52 "2012-04-15T02:32:28Z")
1107 miles. Just a hop, skip, and jump away. (Provided I’m superman.) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/53 "2012-04-15T02:35:56Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Are you the winner from the other end - furthest away? No, [looks like](http://www.antipodr.com/?addr=lebanon%2C+ks&x=0&y=0) Perth Australia, or somewhere in India would be further. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/54 "2012-04-15T03:18:24Z")
Straight line: 6100 km Roads: 9100 ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/55 "2012-04-15T03:44:28Z")
From my house in Central Pennsylvania to Lebanon, Kansas is 1226 miles west. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/56 "2012-04-15T04:26:53Z")
1495.5 miles Sacramento, CA ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/57 "2012-04-15T04:41:08Z")
> [@Tabithina](#): > > 351 miles for now. I’m packing for a move to Champaign-Urbana so soon I’ll be much further away. Ooh. I spent a week there once, on business. My host was offended when I asked if I could get Chicago-style pizza. I had to settle for Champaign-Urbana style pizza. Still tasty. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/58 "2012-04-15T09:26:46Z")
Just in case that Dopefest idea gets more than a few smiles y’all might be interested in a little more trivia about the place. [This post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12177176&postcount=26) has a “big picture” from which this is the key point: > [@](#): > > Putting it all together > the Longitudes of 67W to 124W (or 57 degrees), and > the Latitudes of 25N to 49N (or 24 degrees) > gives us a feel for the size of this country. > > The Geographical Center of the 48 States is located just north and west of Lebanon, KS, adjacent to a pasture and overseen by a friendly-if-nonplussed herd of cows. > > The nearest confluence to that point is 40°N 99°W since the actual coordinates are LAT. 39°50’ LONG. 98°35’ And for more fun with latitude/longitude “convergences” see [Some Geography Trivia Fun: Degree Confluences](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=554045) ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/59 "2012-04-15T09:37:57Z")
13,945km from Sydney. Damm, can’t even get the booby prize for last place. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/60 "2012-04-15T11:27:24Z")
1054.3 from my zip code in Pittsburgh. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763/61 "2012-04-15T11:41:38Z")
1175.8 miles, 17 hrs 25 min Not _that_ far. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-far-do-you-live-from-lebanon-kansas/618763.md?page=4)